1. Professor Gillian Triggs President
3 October 2013
The Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force 18th Annual Meeting and Biennial Conference of the APF

2. Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force
August 2012

3. Review, report and make recommendations on:
Gender equality, women's safety, sexual harassment and abuse, and sex discrimination
Training, education, mentoring and development
Effectiveness of previous cultural change initiatives
Improve pathways for increased representation of women into the senior ranks and leadership of the Australian Defence Force

4. Approach and consultations
Thorough, consultative and constructive
Senior leaders briefings, focus groups, interviews, submissions, surveys, literature review
Spoke with over 2,000 ADF personnel
Surveyed over 6,000 ADF personnel

5. ADF senior leadership

6. Barriers to inclusion
Belief barriers – e.g. good mother belief, ideal worker belief
Organisational cultural barriers – e.g. career development systems that look neutral on their face but reproduce disadvantage for a particular group
Structural barriers – e.g. lack of a paid parental leave scheme; cost and availability of child care

7. Principle 1: Strong leadership drives reform
Principle 2: Diversity of leadership increases capability
Gender breakdown of officer ranks in the ADF

8. Principle 3: Increasing numbers requires increasing opportunities
Principle 4: Greater flexibility will strengthen the ADF
Principle 5: Gender based harassment and violence ruins lives, divides teams and damages operational effectiveness

9. SeMPRO
Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Office, to coordinate timely responses, victim support, education, policy, practice and reporting for any misconduct of a sexual nature, including sexual harassment and sexual abuse in the ADF
24 hour/7 day a week telephone hotline and online service, with call, click or text access

10. - Chiefs of Service Committee statement, 12 October 2012
“Women are essential to the sustainability and operational effectiveness of the ADF because they contribute to a diverse workforce which strengthens the ADF’s ability to be an effective, modern, relevant and high performing organisation”
- Chiefs of Service Committee statement, 12 October 2012