The landmark White Paper on Singapore Women’s Development, launched on 28 March 2022, has sparked a flurry of responses from the Singapore public, running the gamut from excitement to disappointment.
Accordingly, AWARE held an informal virtual town hall on Thursday, 14 April 2022, to allow ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 29 March 2022.
29 March 2022 - Increased financial support for caregivers to the elderly. An anti-discrimination law prohibiting both workplace harassment and further retaliation against affected parties. A new set of Tripartite Guideli...
This post was originally published as a press release on 19 February 2022.
Gender-equality organisation AWARE welcomed a range of measures announced yesterday by Finance Minister Lawrence Wong in Singapore’s “Charting Our New Way Forward Together” National Budget.
In particular, the ...
Caregiving for someone with dementia is a huge undertaking, particularly when one is not adequately equipped to do so. M.E’s challenges in caring for the author’s mother are definitely not unique (Putting mum in a nursing home will be the last resort, Aug 16).
Many families in Singapore hire ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 29 July 2021.
29 July 2021 - Implement comprehensive sexuality education covering consent, violence and gender roles in all schools in Singapore. Place a legal obligation on employers to address workplace harassment. Impose a temporary,...
The Singapore Alliance for Women in Ageing (SAWA) is an alliance of four organisations (AWARE, Persatuan Pemudi Islam Singapura, Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations and the Tsao Foundation), established in 2018 to raise awareness about the gendered nature of ageing in Singapore.
SAWA...
With Singapore’s rapidly ageing population and preference for ageing-in-place, the burden on family caregivers is growing considerably. Yet low fertility rates and decreasing family sizes mean that our population of caregivers is shrinking. The caregiving burden is also likely to fall dispropo...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 22 April 2021.
Journalist Malavika Menon's column, "Hard choice between career and motherhood" (April 18), resonated with me as a new mother who values her career as a social worker.
My daughter is only five months old, and various o...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on April 15 2021.
Eldercare has rightly been discussed as a matter of national concern.
Research by the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) in 2019 found that many women experience a change in work situation because of ...
