Gender Equity Programs

Advancing Women’s Research Success Grant
This grant supports the career progression of early to mid-career high potential academic women with primary carer responsibilities and assists the university in fostering talent to progress women to senior roles at Monash.Applications for the 2020 round are now closed.

Senior Women's Shadowing Program
We are committed to gender equity and increasing the representation of women in senior roles. The Senior Women's Shadowing Program aims to enhance the leadership capabilities of high potential women and assist them to progress to senior roles at Monash.

Women's Mentoring Program
The Women's Mentoring Program supports the career progression and development of female professional and academic staff. The program facilitates mentoring partnerships which provide women with opportunities to reflect on and grow their leadership capabilities, build professional skills and more effectively navigate Monash.

Academic Promotion Information Sessions for Women
Did you know the number of female applicants for promotion has doubled over the past ten years? Academic Promotion Information Sessions for Women have a long history at Monash. You can find videos of academic promotion info session on the Academic Promotion website.

Grant-writing for women
A writing skills program to support female researchers in developing their proposals for competitive research grants and fellowships. This program offers a series of two half-day workshops and personalised grant feedback to support gender equity outcomes in research funding applications.

Inclusive Leadership training
This workshop aims to build unconscious bias awareness and inclusive leadership practice that actively seeks and values the full contribution of diverse people, skills, perspectives and experiences.