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newsGP - IWD: Dr Karen Nicholls on the journey towards equality (RACGP)

The RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Chair celebrates women who show leadership in challenging the systems in which they work. Dr Karen ...

Passionate about health equity and growing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce, Dr Nicholls is currently working in full-time academia at the University of Newcastle where she originally studied medicine. Registration is available on the ‘Torres Strait Islander women definitely go on to do some really fantastic stuff in health. Dr Nicholls will continue to advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and female leadership in the healthcare workforce, which her Chair position empowers her to do. But the college’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Chair relishes holding on to the valuable role of being a GP. The RACGP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Chair celebrates women who show leadership in challenging the systems in which they work.

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Bulldogs Celebrate IWD (Bulldogs)

Today marks 2023 International Women's Day and women make a tremendous contribution at all levels of our Football Club.

However, we are certainly moving in the right direction. Alongside this, the next generation of women are being primed to make their mark when the time comes for the Club to enter the NRLW. The Club submitted an application with a view to be included in the next competition expansion as early as 2024/25.

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newsGP - IWD: Dr Penny Burns on the 'significant changes' to ... (RACGP)

Sydney-based GP and disaster medicine specialist Dr Penny Burns talks to newsGP about what International Women's Day means to her, and the significance of the ...

Being able to be a specialist within being a generalist gives you the best of both. Women have a unique understanding of the particular female issues in balancing family and career.’ ‘In terms of changes for female doctors, I have always found general practice a discipline that supported and facilitated female GPs alongside male GPs. ‘I work in both clinical general practice and in General Practice Disaster Medicine (GPDM), which, after decades of background work, is finally being integrated into the discipline of general practice. This makes the practice of the generalist nature of general practice clearer.’ Males and females in some of those countries are bravely fighting that oppression now and we need to ready to support their fight for equality in whatever small way we can.’

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CATO's inaugural IWD Luncheon inspires industry to greater heights (KarryOn)

Among the most highly anticipated International Women's Day (IWD) events within the travel industry, the Council of Australian Tour Operators' (CATO) first ...

And I’m really proud and really happy that today, the business looks very different.” I looked around and I saw men mostly in management positions and women mostly in administrative positions. we’ve always been obsessed about product and about customer(s).

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