Getting real on women�s issues

By

Siobhan Callan

Professional issues, workload, body image, and issues for female students will be among the issues addressed at Women�s Conference.

The theme for this year�s conference is �Getting Real� and the day will focus on encouraging women teacher unionists to �get real� about activism, on professional issues, on workload, on body image and issues for female students as well as on campaigns of importance for women.

Invited speakers for 2008 include Catharine Lumby.

Professor Lumby is Professor of Journalism and Media and the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communications, University of NSW and has worked as a news reporter, feature writer and opinion columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Bulletin. She has also worked as a news reporter for ABC television. Her PhD thesis examined the rise of a tabloid culture in news and current affairs reporting in the United States and Australia.

Her research interests include the representation of gender in the media, popular culture and advertising as well as young women, self image and media consumption.

Federation Women�s Contacts are asked to encourage as many financial women members as possible to attend the Federation Women�s Conference to be held on Saturday March 29.

About 300 women Federation members usually attend the conference. These members include women teachers from public primary and secondary schools as well as women teachers from TAFE colleges, AMES centres and Corrective Services from across NSW.

Women�s Contacts in all workplaces have been sent information about the Conference as well as registration forms and conference posters ready to display on workplace noticeboards.

Association Secretaries will also have copies of the Conference information and registration details. There is no registration fee to attend the Conference. Federation will fund travel and accommodation costs for one female delegate from each country association as well as five rural women Aboriginal members and five country delegates from TAFE. Local associations may also elect to fund additional delegates.

Please contact Women�s Coordinator Siobhan Callan on (02) 9217 2152 or 1300 654 369 for further information.

Siobhan Callan is Women�s Coordinator.

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