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Friday, 13 December 2019
(L - R) WA Women's Hall of Fame Committee Secretary Julie Ham, Chairperson, Fiona Reid with ECU's Chancellor, the Hon Kerry Sanderson AC, Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve Chapman CBE and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategic Partnerships) Professor Cobie Rudd.
Edith Cowan University (ECU) will host an ongoing exhibition of the WA Women’s Hall of Fame from 2020 after signing a Strategic Partnership Agreement.
The exhibition will include a series of inductee photographs housed in Edith Cowan House, located on ECU’s Joondalup Campus.
First established in 2011 in recognition of the Centenary of International Women’s Day, the WA Women’s Hall of Fame celebrates the significant achievements of Western Australian women of the past and present. The Hall of Fame is an incredible record of the diversity in life for women around our State, from all walks of life, all regions, and range of diverse cultural backgrounds. It celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and the difference they have made to the lives of their fellow West Australians, reflecting on how far we have come, and how far we still must go to realise gender equality.
On 12 December 2019, ECU’s Chancellor the Honourable Kerry Sanderson AC, Vice-Chancellor, Professor Steve Chapman CBE and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategic Partnerships), Professor Cobie Rudd, together with the WA Women's Hall of Fame Chairperson, Fiona Reid and Committee Secretary, Julie Ham met for a joint signing of the official Agreement at Edith Cowan House.
ECU’s connection with the WA Women’s Hall of Fame extends to some of its distinguished inductees. ECU’s namesake, Edith Dircksey Cowan, was the first woman elected to an Australian Parliament and was an inaugural inductee of the WA Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011.
ECU’s Chancellor the Honourable Kerry Sanderson AC and former Governor of Western Australia was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015.
Edith Cowan House itself is of cultural significance as it was once the home of Edith Dircksey Cowan. The house was originally located at 71 Malcolm Street, West Perth. Already in disrepair, it was saved from the wrecking ball by the University in 1991, dismantled, stored and reconstructed beside the lake on the Joondalup Campus in 1997. The house is currently undergoing renovations and due to be complete in early 2020.
To learn more, see the lists of all individuals and groups already inducted into the WA Women’s Hall of Fame.
For more information about ECU’s commitment to gender equality, please visit the Gender Equality website.
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