40 years offeminist progress.And we’re just getting started.
Since 1985, we’ve delivered research, grants, and advocacy that improve the safety, dignity, and economic security of women, girls, and gender-diverse people.
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- "If it’s not intersectional, it can also mean exclusion as well"
- "That’s where joy lives, that’s where community is, that’s friendship, that’s connection."
- "It’s having unapologetic agency and autonomy to be exactly who you’re meant to be in the world."
- "Feminism has to extend beyond gender, it’s about intersectionality and equality, race, religion, sexuality, everything."
- "Feminism to me means challenging authority and questioning things."
- "Feminism means to me, growing up believing that I could do anything."
- "Being able to live my life without having to prove I deserve to be here."
What is Feminism?
The year we were established.
1985
The number of community grants we've funded.
+
Thanks to our supporters, more than $8 million has gone directly to gender equality projects changing lives across Victoria
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Proudly independent, VWT turns research, conversation, and lived experience into action for women and gender diverse people. If you're passionate about equality, this is the space for you.
Whatactionwillwetakeforthenextgeneration?
2010
First female Prime Minister
1990
First woman elected to chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
2023
Matildas semi-final: most-watched TV program in Australian history
1979
Unpaid maternity leave entitlement
1903
Women stand for Federal elections
1975
Women’s refuges funded
2016
First Indigenous woman elected to House of Representatives
1972
Contraceptive pill made widely available
2008
Abortion decriminalised in Victoria
So that in this lifetime we will be:
- equally paid for the same work
- safe on the streets and in our homes
- equally represented in our parliament and leadership positions
- in charge of our own bodies
- free to live the full breadth of our lives, without fear
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On Feminism
"The worst criticism seeks to have the last word and leave the rest of us in silence; the best opens up an exchange that need never end."
- Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me (2014)