Gender based discrimination is still prevalent in Victorian workplaces despite the operation of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and the Equal Opportunity Act 2010.Analyse to what extent the two anti-discrimination Acts and the Fair Work Act 2009 have been effective at addressing issues of sex discrimination in the workplace including systemic discrimination and the question of the valuing of work carried out primarily by women.
You would then have to identify what gender based discrimination looks like in Victorian/Australian workplaces,what issues and circumstances operate to cause systemic discrimination, what the provisions of the various Acts do to address those issues or give people a mechanism to challenge that discrimination and given it is very topical at the moment with decisions in the Fair Work Commission, look at the equal pay for equal value cases (eg why is it that child care workers are paid so much less than construction workers) and analyse how that fits into the anti-discrimination picture and what mechanisms are open under the Fair Work Act to pursue that discrimination issue.
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