Unveiling the structural disadvantage: An SSI virtual parallel event at CSW 2025

Unveiling the structural disadvantage for women across the migration spectrum in their country of permanent settlement  

SSI invites you to attend virtually, Unveiling the structural disadvantage for women across the migration spectrum in their country of permanent settlement, a parallel event at the 2025 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.  

Migrant women in their host countries face structural disadvantages, largely due to utilitarian immigration policies that view migrants as a solution for filling low-wage jobs and, in some cases, gaps in the skilled workforce. However, these women are not always welcomed into the dominant culture and often have limited access to the local labor market. 

SSI's Activate Australia's Skills advocacy campaign is actively working to improve labor market access for migrants and refugees, with clear recommendations on how governments can ensure better employment opportunities, fair wages, and work that matches their skills and qualifications. 

This, in turn, would help alleviate poverty. Additionally, women experience unique challenges, such as high childcare costs, restrictive gender roles, racial discrimination, specific forms of gender-based violence, and limited access to institutional support for advancing gender equality. This issue is similarly faced by migrant women worldwide. 

This insightful event will explore the challenges faced by migrant women in accessing the labor market and achieving gender equality, and also feature firsthand accounts from individuals with lived experience. 

Speakers

• Malini Raj, Executive Director, Australian Multicultural Women's Alliance
• Juliana Nkrumah, Manager Gender Equity and Women's Safety, SSI
• Hafsa Tameesuddin, APPRN
• Lily Jiang, Stakeholder Engagement. SSI

The CSW is the leading global intergovernmental body focused on advancing gender equality and women's empowerment. It plays a key role in promoting women's rights, documenting their experiences worldwide, and shaping global gender equality standards.  

At its annual two-week session, UN Member States, civil society organisations, and UN entities meet in New York to review progress on the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Beijing+5 session (2000), and emerging gender equality issues. 

Date: Monday, 10 March 2025 (AEDT)

Time: 7:30 pm-9:30 pm (AEDT) 

Location: Virtual webinar via Zoom link. 

RSVP: Register via Humanitix here.