International Women’s Day 2021
Happy International Women’s Day!
A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change.
So let’s all choose to challenge.
How will you help forge a gender-equal world?
Celebrate women’s achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

Introducing Hayley Sucic

What’s your role at FVS?
Group HSEQ (Health, Safety, Environment Quality) Coordinator- AKA the (proud) ‘safety nerd’
What does international women’s day mean to you?
This year’s IWD theme is choose to challenge. How will you choose to challenge?
Gender and role stereotyping are social constructs and it makes no sense to enforce them or expect alignment to them. I ‘choose to challenge’ these every day because I hear, see and experience them so often. For example, It stuns certain people when I mention I love aviation, golf and AFL (horn tooting time – I can banana kick a footy straight through the uprights from next to the behind post). I get plonked into the ‘one of the boys’ category because I can put an IKEA flat pack together like a pro and within the prescribed time. Because screwdrivers are apparently for boy hands, not girl hands. I will call this out every time and I will also call out people who refuse to let their sons wear pink, play with a doll or tell them they ‘throw/run/kick like a girl”.
Who is your biggest female role model and why?
Introducing Jay Hawkins

What’s your role at FVS?
Service Manager – Cairns
What does international women’s day mean to you?
It’s about celebrating women’s achievement and how far we have come towards gender equality and also remembering the women before us that fought for what we have today.
This year’s IWD theme is choose to challenge. How will you choose to challenge?
Challenge and call out gender bias and inequality
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