Self-care for Gender Equity Work
Associated Courses
$50.00
This short course provides guidance on how you can undertake self-care practice to support your gender equity work. Self-care is a crucial part of ensuring a strong, safe and sustainable gender equity workforce but is often taken for granted. This course will guide you on why practicing self-care is important, what self-care looks like for individuals and workplaces, and how to undertake self-care strategies for yourself and others.
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- describe how self-care relates to gender equity work
- identify different types of self-care
- identify self-care strategies
- identify and address the self-care needs of others.
Gender equity work seeks to address the unequal attitudes, practices and structures that reinforce gender inequality and create a fairer, more equal world for women, men and gender diverse people. Anyone can contribute to these goals, whether in your workplace, your community or other areas of your life.
The purpose of this short course is to provide guidance on how you can undertake self-care practice to support yourself and others in gender equity work.
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- describe how self-care relates to gender equity work
- identify different types of self-care
- identify self-care strategies
- identify and address the self-care needs of others.
Modules
This short course has three modules followed by a final assessment:
- Module 1: Understanding self-care
- Module 2: Practicing self-care
- Module 3: The self-care needs of others
- Assessment
Time and assessment
This short course will take approximately two hours to complete.
There are a number of practice activities at the end of each module to help you check your knowledge.
You will only be assessed at the end of the course. For this final assessment, you have an unlimited number of attempts, but you must score 80% to complete this course.
On completion of this short course a digital badge will be issued. A digital badge is an authenticated, online representation of the knowledge acquired and can be shared via a range of online platforms.
Why do this course
The 2015 Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence looked at the causes and issues of family violence. It revealed that family violence is a gendered crime, as 75% of victims are women. Gender inequality is at the core of violence against women and is a serious social issue in Australia. A number of new gender equity strategies and policies have been developed to address this issue.
Workplace gender equity is crucial for today’s workplace. Gender equality boosts productivity, innovation and performance in all industries. It improves workplace conditions and supports all employees to fully participate in the workforce and achieve their career aspirations.
Why do a Microcredential?
The Gender Equity Microcredentials are online credentials that have been developed by industry for industry, ensuring their relevance to the professional development needs of the emerging workforce contributing to gender equality in the workplace. The Microcredentials are suitable for any person whose work role requires them to have an understanding and awareness of gender equity in the workplace.