2007 dates - 21 May : 1 June
Anna Stewart Memorial Project turns 21!
To mark the 21st anniversary of Australia's longest running and most
successful women's mentoring project a history of the project was launched by the Hon Steph Key at a gala cocktail function 11 August
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ASMP 2004 DVD (order form)
The Program
The ASMP is held
annually over a two week period (usually in the last week of May and first week
of June).
The training program is
designed specifically to give women an insight on how unions operate
and how women can be more active in their union.
The Program
The Anna Stewart Memorial
Project places a group of women union members in different unions
for two weeks experience. They see how the union is organised
and its relationship to other unions. They become involved in
the issues which are important to members, participate in union
offices and meeting with members, officials, other unions and SA
Unions.
The first Anna Stewart
Project was held in Victoria in 1984. SA Unions held its first
program in 1985.
The project aims to
increase women's active union involvement and to increase the union
movement's acceptance and understanding of women members.
Women in Unions
The strength of the union movement is based on its collective, democratic organisation and its unity of purpose.
While women's share of union membership is rising, their participation in union affairs is lagging. This reflects women's major share of child rearing and domestic work and the lack of awareness in many unions of the problems facing women members and ways of involving women. The Anna Stewart Memorial
Program provides a way - alongside many others - in which these problems can be addressed.
All
Union women members are invited to apply
