Australia Persuasive Speech

Australia. A place where everyone gets a fair go. The second country in the world to legalize the vote for women. Not long ago we had our first female Governor General and our first female Prime Minister. Women are dominating in sport and most of us are treated equally. We are doing alright. Or so we think… If everyone in their heads could pick out five girls from the room, it can be any girl or woman you see. Now pick just one out of those five girls. If we were looking at statistics from the Human Rights Commission she will experience sexual violence in her lifetime. Didn't expect that did you. Now with the remaining four girls in your group, chose another, or if you're no longer comfortable with this, don’t. Now, statistically, this one …show more content…
Workplaces can both directly and indirectly improve gender equity in our community by addressing the “models for change” which focus on building levels of respect, responding to violence and preventing violence against women. As workplaces are an influential part of our lives it is crucial that they address violence prevention programs to change attitudes towards physical and sexual violence. However, getting workplaces on board is just a tiny piece of the gigantic puzzle of violence against women. And if there’s gender discrimination in the workplace — which there is in a countless number of workplaces, we simple cannot achieve gender equality elsewhere. And to add to that, Consulting firm Mercer found that we won’t reach global gender equality in the workplace until 2050. But it’s not just our companies’ attitudes that have to change, it’s OURS. Rupert Myers reported in the Guardian in March this year that “it’s easy for men to acknowledge sexism. The challenge is to do something about it”, what he contended was that 30 per cent of men agree that most men are sexist, and that 27 per cent of women agreed to this also. So that in fact men were identifying sexism more easily yet were not doing enough to prevent it. And as said by prime minister Malcolm Turnbull at this year’s parliamentary breakfast for International Women’s Day “this is an issue about respect; this is an issue about

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