The Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry invites you to attend the upcoming Business Leaders Series.

Our Guest Speaker is Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa, renowned women's rights advocate and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney.

The challenge of achieving gender equality is arguably more visible today in Australia than ever before. Some of the greatest challenges women face to equality are within the workplace and on workplace-related matters. While workplace laws, policies and practices are a big part of the problem, they can also be a big part of the solution. In this talk, Ramona Vijeyarasa will discuss the difference gender-responsive laws at work can make to enhance productivity, corporate compliance and most importantly advance equality in this country.

Dr Vijeyarasa is the architect behind the Gender Legislative Index, the first comprehensive IT-based tool to make legislation work more effectively to improve women’s lives. Her work innovatively combines law, engineering and data science to reinvigorate decades-long debates about the law’s role in addressing gender inequality.

Date:   Wednesday, 30 June 2021
Time:   10:00am for 10:30am start - 11:30am
Venue: The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel
Address: 1 Macquarie St, Hobart TAS
Dress: Business attire
Details:   Presentation with networking morning tea

Tickets:   Member - $39
Non-Member - $59

BIOGRAPHY:

Ramona Vijeyarasa
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney

Ramona Vijeyarasa is the architect behind the Gender Legislative Index, the first comprehensive IT-based tool to make legislation work more effectively to improve women’s lives. Her work innovatively combines law, engineering and data science to reinvigorate decades-long debates about the law’s role in addressing gender inequality. A Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, she is editor of International Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: Making the law work for women (2021) and author of Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Women: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims (2015). Ramona’s research is informed by a decade working in civil society. Her international human rights activism has included advancing anti-trafficking victim reintegration networks in Vietnam and Ukraine; filing briefs before the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of Moldova, and the Supreme Court of the Philippines; and managing multi-country programs to advance women’s reproductive rights and freedom from violence across the global South. Ramona was the 2020 Women’s Leadership Institute Australia Research Fellow and has research grants and awards from New York University, the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

For all enquiries please contact: events@tcci.com.au

This is a face-to-face event and TCCI’s COVID-19 Safety Plan will be strictly adhered to. You must not attend if you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms including a cough, fever, sore throat, fatigue or shortness of breath. Maintaining physical distancing requirements at this event is the responsibility of all guests. Thank you for your understanding.

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