Helping working women and non-binary people navigate workplace issues.

Discrimination, sexual harassment and other unlawful conduct remain common in Australian workplaces. They are driven by, and in turn reinforce, gender inequality and other forms of structural disadvantage, and they cause lasting physical, psychological and financial harm. Too many women and non-binary people who experience these harms cannot get to justice, and the barriers in their way compound the harm and let the same patterns repeat. Our response is the Working Women’s Centre Victoria: a single Centre built by four independent community legal centres. Together we work at four levels at once: with individuals, in communities, inside workplaces, and on the system itself. We help the person in front of us, and at the same time we work to prevent the same harm reaching the next person. These are not four separate programs. The outcomes we achieve at each level reinforce and amplify the others.