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Title – 6696 SOLOMON IS: New book celebrating women achievements
Date – 7 March 2010
Byline – Ismira Lutfia
Origin – Pacific Media Watch
Source – AUT University, 7/3/10
Copyright – AUT
Status – Unabridged
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STORIES OF OUTSTANDING SOLOMON ISLANDS WOMEN
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AUCKLAND (AUT University/Pacific Media Watch): A book launched in the Solomon Islands tomorrow marks International Women's Day by celebrating leadership and achievement among Solomon Islands women. Being the First tells the stories of 14 women who have broken barriers to rise to high positions within the Solomon Islands public service, and encourages young Solomon Islands women to follow their lead.
Alice Aruhe'eta Pollard, and AUT University's Professor Marilyn Waring, co-edited the book as part of their work heading up the Women in Governance component of the Regional Assistance Mission for Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
The public service is the Solomon Island's single largest employer but only six percent of women who work in it hold senior management positions.
"As part of our work with RAMSI we are required to mentor women in the public service. And when we realised that no book about Solomon Islands women has ever been written by Solomon Islands women, we realised this was an another way we could mentor women and encourage them to strive for leadership roles," says Waring.
All of the women profiled in Being the First have broken new ground within Solomon Islands government structures to take on roles including permanent secretaries, officers of parliament, the only woman elected to Parliament and a former Public Service Commissioner.
Waring says it is important that the women's stories are written down and form part of recorded Solomon Islands history. Many of them have spent time overseas studying and working, and those parts of their lives are easily lost from the Islands history unless details are written down.
Being the First is published by AUT's Pacific Media Centre on behalf of RAMSI and AUT's Institute of Public Policy.
Waring says that AUT's connection and contribution to Being the First is one of many initiatives that demonstrate the university's commitment towards becoming the postgraduate university of choice for people of the Pacific Islands.
What: Launch of Being the First
When: Monday, 8 March 2010
Where: Commonwealth Youth Program, Panatina Lower Campus, Honiara
More: Pacific.Scoop www.pacific.scoop.co.nz ( http://www.pacific.scoop.co.nz/ )or visit the Pacific Media Centre site for details of the New Zealand launch, or to purchase the book: www.pmc.aut.ac.nz
Radio Australia story profiling the book on the Pacific Media Centre Niusblog:
http://pacificmediacentre.blogspot.com/2010/03/publishing-triumph-for-solomons.html
Order online from Wheelers South Pacific Books www.wheelers.co.nz
or the Pacific Media Centre www.pmc.aut.ac.nz
Price: $27
Contact:
Andrea Malcolm, Communications Advisor
Ph 09 921 9423 or 021 924314
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