WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY IN TASMANIA

Jo Palmer MLC, Minister for Women

In a significant milestone, the Tasmanian Liberal Government is delivering its first Gender Budget Statement.

The Statement highlights how the 2022-23 Tasmanian Budget is targeting areas of inequality experienced by women, men and gender diverse Tasmanians.

This is a key initiative under the Tasmanian Women’s Strategy 2022-2027, which guides the Tasmanian Government’s work towards achieving gender equality and, in particular, supporting the full participation of women and girls in all aspects of society.

The 2022-23 Budget is about delivering for all Tasmanians and that is why we are committing $800,000 over four years to implement other key initiatives in the Tasmanian Women’s Strategy 2022-2027, including establishing a Gender Impact Assessment Toolkit to analyse the gender impact of policies, processes and projects.

We will continue our focus on reducing barriers to women’s economic participation and increasing opportunities for participation and advancement in industries in which women are traditionally under-represented.

To do this, the 2022-23 Tasmanian Budget also includes $700,000 over two years to continue the Women's Workforce Participation, through the Supporting Women to Succeed grant program.

And we will continue to deliver initiatives, including the Women on Boards Strategy, grant programs for International Women’s Day, development of a Modern Workplaces Framework, the Women in Building and Construction Strategy and Girls in Property Pilot program.

This broad range of initiatives not only supports gender equality, but provides industry with the ability to leverage the whole population in attracting employees, and addressing skills and labour shortages.

As we finalise the Tasmanian Women’s Strategy 2022-2027, our Government is strengthening the future by taking action to support and empower women in Tasmania.