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  • Roundtable Discussion: Gender in Indian Scripture

    February 6th, 2013 | Events, Gender-based Violence
    Feminine Protests in the Ramayana and Mahabharata Ahalya draupadi sita tara mandodari tatha Panchakanya smarennityam mahapatakanasanam To this day, Indian...

  • Daughters of Tomorrow Charity Screening: Miss Representation

    February 5th, 2013 | Events, Gender-based Violence, Workplace Harassment
    As part of our International Women’s Day celebration, AWARE and Daughters of Tomorrow (DOT) are holding a screening of Miss...

  • AWARE Responds To The Population Paper

    February 2nd, 2013 | Older People and Caregiving, Poverty and Inequality
    Why no public consultation and considerations of social justice?

  • Missing Pieces In The Parenthood Scheme

    February 1st, 2013 | Children and Young People, Family and Divorce
    Giving certain families access to piecemeal benefits will not solve the care-giving problem. We need to think about how we can build a more family-friendly society. This article was written by Kokila Annamalai.

  • Let’s call a rape a rape

    January 28th, 2013 | Gender-based Violence, Letters and op-eds
    Media coverage and popular discussion of rape give disproportionate weight to concerns over false reports - to the point where the default response for many is to assume that a woman is lying if she discloses that she was a victim of rape or sexual assault. It is exactly this social norm that allows rapists to continue raping, because they know their victims will not be believed.By Wong Pei Chi. An initial version was first published in The Straits Times on 24 Jan 2013.

  • Why No Benefits for Unwed Mothers?

    January 22nd, 2013 | Family and Divorce
    Access to childcare subsidies, motherhood benefits and housing benefits should be granted to all parents, without discriminating against unwed parents or stay-at-home parents. To build a truly inclusive society, our policies must evolve to embrace different types of families. This is an AWARE press release.

  • Congratulations to our first Woman Speaker!

    January 9th, 2013 | Women in Leadership
    AWARE welcomes Madam Halimah Yacob's election with a sense of loss.

  • Saying ‘no’ to seemingly harmless sexist views

    January 8th, 2013 | Gender-based Violence, Letters and op-eds
    Few Singaporeans may intend to be sexist or think of themselves as such. But some instances show that sexism and violence against women have become so normalised that when people joke about rape, others accept it as funny. By Corinna Lim, Vivienne Wee and Kokila Annamalai. This piece was first published in The Straits Times on 08 Jan 2013.

  • Roundtable Discussion: Pre-Budget Forum 2013

    January 4th, 2013 | Events, Family and Divorce, Older People and Caregiving, Poverty and Inequality
    The Singapore Budget is prepared each financial year, which beings on 1 April of every calendar year and ends on...
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