Reports and Publications

Reports

UWS Equity and Diversity Plan

• UWS Equity and Diversity Plan 2010-2011

Equal Opportunity Reports to the NSW State Government

Part 9A of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 requires the University to report on Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) in its Annual Report to the NSW Parliament.

EEO is about ensuring that all employees have equal access to the opportunities that are available at work by:

• making sure that workplaces are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment, and
• providing programs to assist members of EEO groups to overcome past or present disadvantage

EEO groups are people affected by past or continuing disadvantage or discrimination in employment. The NSW Government has identified these groups and set specific employment targets for these groups in the workforce:

• 50% for women
• 2% for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders
• 19% for people whose first language was not English
• 12% for people with a disability
• 7% for people with a disability who require work-related adjustments

Equity and Diversity prepare annual statistical reports on the participation of EEO groups in the workforce. The latest data on staff equity is the 2010-2011 EO Data Report - General Staff and the 2010-2011 EO Data Report - Academic Staff.

Reports to The Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA)

The University is a 2009 EOWA Employer of Choice for Women, a prestigious citation that recognises the University's efforts and achievements in the area of equal opportunity for women. 

UWS is required by legislation to report to EOWA each year on workplace programs and activities aimed at eliminating discrimination and contributing to equal opportunity for women. However in aknowledgement of the University's women friendly programs and policies, UWS  is currently waived from the requirement of reporting annually to EOWA.

Equity and Diversity continue to analyse the workforce annually to monitor issues for women employees and initiate measures to address these issues.

The latest data on women at UWS is the UWS Gender Workforce Profile for 2010-2011.

Disability Services

• UWS 2007 Disability Review Report
• UWS Disability Action Plan 2010-2014

Speeches given by the Director, Equity and Diversity

• The Beijing Olympic Torch Odyssey
• An Absence of Human Rights: Children in Detention. Keynote speech at the Human Rights Law and Policy Conference Melbourne 16-17 June
• Human Rights and the Beijing Olympics
  Keynote Address presented at the Activating Human Rights and Peace Conference Byron Bay 1-4 July 2008 (opens in a new window)
• The 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Changing Australia's Human Rights Culture. Speech given to "W(h)ither Human Rights": 25th Annual Law and Society Conference at Sydney University 10-12 December