Women’s Choices, Women’s Lives: Shaping the Next 25 Years

Update: AWARE is pleased to announce that sign language interpreters will be present at the conference. In addition, the venue is wheelchair accessible.

AWARE, together with the National University of Singapore Society (NUSS), is organising AWARE’s 25th Anniversary Conference, Women’s Choices, Women’s Lives: Shaping the Next 25 Years on 5th March 2011 at Kent Ridge Guild Hall.

This conference is a reprise of one held 25 years ago, which went by the same name – the pivotal 1984 NUSS forum, “Women’s Choices, Women’s Lives”. The conclusion of that forum was that Singapore needed a women’s rights organisation. As a direct result, AWARE was formed shortly after in 1985.

Marking the close of AWARE’s 25th anniversary celebrations, the conference aims to take stock of where women are today and explore the policy approaches that have been taken in the last 25 years and ramifications of these; and to collectively envision possibilities for the next 25 years.

Our Guest of Honour will be Dr Aline Wong, Singapore’s representative to the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women. The conference will open with presentations from the following experts and women activists:

· Dana Lam:
25 Years of AWARE, a retrospective

· Braema Mathi:
Sustaining Women’s Choices in Singapore – The Long and Short of It

· Professor Linda Lim:
Beyond Gender: The impact of Age, Ethnicity, Nationality and Economic growth on Women in the Singapore Economy

· Assistant Professor Teo You Yenn:
Making choices amidst increasing burdens: A Feminist Analysis of Singapore’s Pro-natal policies

· Dr Kanwaljit Soin:
The Forgotten Generation: Why are older women not valued

The second part of the forum will examine future possibilities. It will start with a panel of informed younger women and men sharing their views and hopes on the development of policies affecting women in Singapore.

The conference will then break out to discuss different aspects of the question:

“What possibilities do you see for greater gender equality in the next 25 years in Singapore?”

These recommendations will be collated and presented to policy makers after the Conference.

Click here to download the Conference speakers’ profiles and abstracts of their presentations.

Date: 5th March 2011
Time: 9am – 5pm (registration begins at 8.30 am)
Venue: NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House– Hall, 9 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119241
(6779 1811) see a location map here. Parking is available at NUS Carpark 15 conveniently located just across the road from KRGH.

Tickets are $20 per person and $32 for two people.

AWARE members may purchase discounted tickets at $15 per person or $24 for two people by logging in first to the website and purchasing the tickets.

Click HERE to register.

For further information, e-mail to training@aware.org.sg

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