Zonta Club of Melbourne's East in Glen Waverley, Victoria, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Zonta Club of Melbourne's East

Locality: Glen Waverley, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 412 248 095

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25.01.2022 In Jordan, 2,473 women benefitted from cash-for-work opportunities, and more than 3,000 women were provided with gender-based violence support in 2019. Read mor...e about Zonta's Eid bi Eid Jordan project results in our latest Annual Report: https://zonta.org/annualreport. cc: UN Women, UN Women Jordan #ZontaEmpowers See more

24.01.2022 Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. Zonta International is committed to supporting the Sustainable Development Goals..., which aim to end #FGM by 2030. Read more in our statement: http://bit.ly/EndFGMDay. #ZontaEmpowers #Act2EndFGM #EndFGM #GenerationEquality #SDGs

22.01.2022 Thanks for all the people who stood by our side and donated from all over the world to help us with Beirut reconstruction. We present you one of the homes we helped in rebuilding in Rmeil, Ashrafieh Please keep on donation, Beirut people need us!

22.01.2022 There is still plenty of time to place your Wine Order to assist our fundraising efforts for 2020. There has been great feedback so far for all the varieties in our selection. Some of our friends are already talking about going back for more! Please place your first order by clicking on this link: https://www.personaliseyourwine.com.au//zonta-club-of-melb It would be great to have your support as this year many of our fundraising events have been cancelled due to Covid-19.

20.01.2022 Congratulations to Zonta Club of Everett. Become a member in your local area to strive for this powerful vision in your local community and worldwide. Visit www.zontamelbourneseast.org.au

20.01.2022 Zonta Says NO to intimate partner violence

19.01.2022 "Gender equality cannot be achieved until women are paid equally compared to their male counterparts," said Zonta International President Sharon Langenbeck. "Zo...nta International is committed to advocating for #equalpay for women in the 62 countries where we have active Zonta clubs." Read our full statement on the first-ever #InternationalEqualPayDay: https://bit.ly/3kHaouv #EqualPayDay #EqualPayDay2020 #equalpayforequalwork #genderequality #GenderPayGap #genderparity

19.01.2022 Can you repeat that? It’s a simple question that you can ask somebody if they’ve made an inappropriate sexist or discriminatory comment. By asking the person to repeat the statement, it gives them an opportunity to think about what they have said. It can also give them the opportunity to rethink their statement and correct themselves.... When we stay silent, we are reinforcing that the behaviour is acceptable. When we call it out, we’re sending a really clear message that it’s not okay. #16Days16Ways #16DaysCampaign #RespectIs #CallitOut

18.01.2022 Zonta Club of Melbourne's East invites you to join us at our next Zoom meeting. We will be welcoming guest speaker Phillipa Challis, the Laughter Lady. Please private message or email us with your email address and we will send you the zoom invitation. Meeting time, Thursday 1st October at 7.30pm We look forward to an evening of fun and of course LAUGHTER! Find out more about Phillipa - http://www.phillipachallis.com/

18.01.2022 Please support our Club, it’s been difficult to raise funds this year to support our service and advocacy projects.

16.01.2022 Women win all four 2021 Australian of the Year Awards. Congratulations to all recipients! The women are: ... Local Hero - Rosemary Kariuki (NSW)- supporting migrant women dealing with domestic violence & assimilation issues Young Australian- Isobel Marshall (SA) - period poverty advocate & co-founder of TABOO Senior Australian- Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann (NT)- ground-breaking Indigenous teacher Australian of the Year - Grace Tame (Tasmania)- sexual assault survivor & advocate

11.01.2022 Shocking front page headline in today’s The West Australian newspaper, with an equally disturbing editorial with the headline, Domestic violence shame now an epidemic. There's a lot of work to be done!

09.01.2022 During Phase I of the Global Programme to End Child Marriage, 7.9 million adolescent girls were actively participating in a targeted program, and nearly 745,000... adolescent girls were supported to enroll and remain in formal and nonformal education. Read more about the program's success in our Annual Report at https://zonta.org/annualreport. #ZontaEmpowers #EndChildMarriage See more

09.01.2022 Sometimes sexist comments are made by people who don’t understand that their attitudes and behaviours are harmful. That’s why it’s important to call it out. What’s obvious for you may not be for them. Respectfully informing them could help them to understand and support them to change their behaviour.... Changing harmful attitudes might not happen overnight. The more valuable conversations we have that challenge these kinds of behaviours, the closer we will get to achieving a gender equal society for all. #16Days16Ways #16DaysCampaign #RespectIs #CallitOut

08.01.2022 It’s the little things that will add up.

07.01.2022 IN MEMORIUM - SUSAN RYAN AO Susan Ryan AO was a founding member of WEL ACT in 1972. She spoke as Sue Butler at the first National WEL Conference held in Canberr...a in January, 1973. She was part of a national community of feminist activists who pioneered work on women’s equality in what was the wave of feminism at that time which flooded political and social movements leading to profound policy changes at all levels of government. WEL campaigned for her election to the Senate with hundreds of T-shirts emblazoned with the message: A Women’s Place is in the Senate. She was elected the first Labor Senator for the ACT in 1975. She was the first woman member of a federal Labor Cabinet as Minister for Education and was Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women from 1983-1988. She shepherded the Sex Discrimination Act through the Parliament of Australia, an achievement she regarded as her greatest. Past and Present members of WEL mourn her passing and salute her immeasurable contribution to women’s rights and the status of women in Australia.

03.01.2022 People often use sexist comments as a ’joke’. These may seem innocent and harmless, but they contribute to a society which promotes disrespect and discrimination. A person using the sexist ‘joke’ may not intend harm, but the bottom line is they’re being offensive, not funny. It can be complicated and uncomfortable to explain this to someone, especially in a group setting.... One way to challenge these ‘jokes’ is to ask the person to explain what they meant by it. If you remain poised and serious, they may be forced to confront the plain truth that their comment was offensive, not humorous. This can also deter them from using these behaviours in the future. #16Days16Ways #16DaysCampaign #RespectIs #CallitOut

02.01.2022 Zonta has supported the United Nations since the beginning. As #UNGA75 kicks off, we congratulate the #UnitedNations on its 75th anniversary and reaffirm our co...mmitment to working together to achieve our collective goals. Read our statement: https://bit.ly/3iyHBrd #UN75 #UNGA2020 #SDG5 #GlobalGoals See more

02.01.2022 Zonta International celebrates firsts for women in all different sectors in countries and communities around the world. Take a look at some of the women who made history in the first month of 2021: http://bit.ly/3thKoe9 #firstsforwomen #makehistory #Herstory #womenempowerment

01.01.2022 Anti-sexist educator and activist Jackson Katz wants people to look at: that whole range of issues that are referred to in shorthand as gender violence issues... in a new way: they’ve been seen as women’s issues that some good men help out with, but I have a problem with that frame and I don’t accept it. Instead, he says in his excellent TED talk, I’m going to argue that these are men’s issues first and foremost. He argues that calling gender violence a women’s issue is part of the problem. Katz uses an analysis by feminist linguist Julia Penelope to show how changing the description changes the tone of the discussion: Start with ‘John beat Mary’.... the second sentence says the same thing in a passive voice, ‘Mary was beaten by John,’ and now a whole lot has happened in one sentence... We’ve shifted our focus in one sentence from John to Mary. And when the focus shifts further, you get ‘Mary was beaten’, and now it’s all about Mary; we’re not even thinking about John... and the final sentence in the sequence, flowing from the others, is ‘Mary is a battered woman’... [and] John has long ago left the conversation. Katz, who is the creator of Mentors in Violence Prevention, a leadership program focused on preventing all forms of men’s violence against women, says, those of us who work in the domestic and sexual violence field know that victim blaming is pervasive in this realm... but in terms of preventing violence, we have to ask a different set of questions... like why does John beat Mary, why is domestic violence still a big problem in the United States and all over the world. Once we’re thinking in this way, then we can ask about... how can we do something differently, how can we change the practices, how can we change the socialization of boys and the definitions of manhood that lead to these current outcomes. Katz asserts that there are powerful roles that men can play in this work" and he calls on his fellow men to put aside the notion of a gender war and stand side-by-side with women: We live in the world together... [we need] to get people to speak up and to create a peer culture where the abusive behavior will be unacceptable not because it’s illegal, but because it’s wrong and unacceptable in the peer culture. He says, there’s been an awful lot of silence in male culture about this ongoing tragedy... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that. And so Katz concludes, I hope that, going forward, men and women working together can begin the change and the transformation that will happen so that future generations won’t have the level of tragedy that we deal with on a daily basis... I know we can do it. We can do better. You can watch his excellent TED talk "Violence against women it's a men's issue," at http://bit.ly/Xq6fzu To read more from Jackson Katz, check out his book "The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help" at http://amzn.to/1pVzDem For an exceptional book for older teens and adults about the early warning signs of abusive relationships, myths about abusive personalities, and how to get help, we highly recommend "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" at https://www.amightygirl.com/why-does-he-do-that For two excellent new books about a tween girls' experience with sexual harassment - both for 10 and up - check out "Maybe He Just Likes You" (https://www.amightygirl.com/maybe-he-just-likes-you) and "That's What Friends Do" (https://www.amightygirl.com/that-s-what-friends-do) To help your Mighty Girl learn how to build supportive, mutually respectful relationships, there is a wonderful guide that provides foundational advice on approaching relationships in a healthy manner, "A Smart Girl's Guide to Boys," for girls 9 to 13 https://www.amightygirl.com/a-smart-girl-s-guide-to-boys And, if you’re a parent concerned that your daughter may be in an unhealthy relationship, check out the books But I Love Him: Protecting Your Teen Daughter from Controlling, Abusive Relationships (https://www.amightygirl.com/but-i-love-him) and Saving Beauty From The Beast: How to Protect Your Daughter from an Unhealthy Relationship (https://www.amightygirl.com/saving-beauty-from-the-beast)