- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0381
Goward, Pru
- The Honourable
- Goward, Prudence
- Born 2 November 1952, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Occupation Bureaucrat, Journalist, Parliamentarian
Summary
Pru Goward served as Executive Director of the Office of the Status of Women from 1997. In July 2001 she became the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, appointed for a term of five years. In 2004 she was also appointed Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination.
In 2004 she was nominated by The Australian as one of the forty most influential Australians and by the Australian Financial Review as one of the country’s top cultural and industrial relations influencers. Her speeches have been reproduced in published collections and in 2001 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for her services to journalism and women’s rights.
In 2007 she stood successfully as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia in the seat of Goulburn in the Legislative Assembly at the New South Wales state election, which was held on 24 March. She was re-elected in 2011 and again in 2015 and is a minister in the Liberal state government.
Digital resources
- Title: Pru Goward in her new role at the Office of the Status of Women
- Type: Image
- Date: 3 May, 2023
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Goward, Pru, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-549781
- Edited Book
- Book
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Report
- Striking the Balance: women, men, work and family, Goward, Pru, 2005, http://www.hreoc.gov.au/sex_discrimination/strikingbalance/docs/STB_Final.pdf
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Site Exhibition
- Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html
- From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg