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Overview
The commitments and actions that senior executives and board members make are critical to changing the attitudes, behaviours and structures that drive violence against women.
Engaging leaders is therefore vital for ensuring that efforts to achieve equality and respect are successful and sustained.
The resources on this page will support you to engage leaders, create leadership commitments and define what actions leaders and senior executives can take.
Leadership commitment checklist
This checklist ensures commitment is secured from board members/senior executives. This may include training to ensure they understand violence against women and the role of the workplace in prevention, discussing the business case for workplace gender equality, and connecting gender equality to the vision and goals of the organisation.
Workplace Equality and Respect: Leadership commitment checklist
Engaging leaders
This tip sheet is for anyone tasked with promoting gender equality and respect in their workplace.
Tip sheet: Engaging leaders
Actions for senior executives
What senior executives communicate to their employees and stakeholders and how they do it significantly shapes people’s attitudes to sexual harassment.
This guide shares actions for senior executives to take in order to prevent and mitigate the risks of sexual harassment in their workplaces.
Preventing sexual harassment: Actions for senior executives
Actions leaders can take
Leadership teams set the tone for workplace culture. This resources is a one-page overview about actions leaders can take.
