Professional Women

APESMA works to increase women's involvement and status in the professional workforce and within our organisation. While we celebrate that women's involvement in the professions has come a very long way over past decades, a range of professional, workplace and cultural issues affecting women's career development and progression in the professions still need to be addressed.

The professional women's interest group provides a platform for our women members to work together to raise awareness and build solutions.

• Gathering information and developing policy and workplace positions for our association on a range of core workplace conditions affecting all members - particularly around flexibility and cultural issues, workforce development and training issues, and issues of equity and workplace justice.
• Sharing information for our members and our association about policy developments of relevance to women in the professions and broader community.
• Facilitating the involvement of women in APESMA's work, leadership and committee structures.
• Coordinating the APESMA Women in the Professions Survey, which provides us with biennial data on career, workplace and professional issues for women.
• Member seminars, including seminars and networking opportunities specifically for women members to meet and exchange ideas with other women working in often male-dominated professions.

The latest news and updates will be posted in this interest group.