Why a family friendly workplace strategy is key for businesses post Covid
There is one thing all employees have in common – a ‘life’ outside of work. No matter how you define ‘family’, we all have a variety of needs and commitments we must juggle outside of work – effectively, we all belong to a family who have expectations of us. Never before has work and family […]
Gender Pay Gap Apathy: I’m not prepared to wait 26 years, are you?
Last week the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) in partnership with the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), released their yearly insights into the gender pay gap in Australian workplaces. This years findings predicted a 26 year long wait before the gender pay gap is closed – a gap that many, including myself, are not prepared […]
Upcoming Webinar: Striking the Balance Between Career & Family | An International Women’s Day event
This International Women’s Day Parents At Work is hosting an exclusive international webinar about how employers can support their female employees to strike a balance between career and family in order to improve the health of their people as well as gender equality within their workplace. This will be in line with the UN Women’s theme […]
WATCH: How to boost female workforce participation (for Employers)
Our CEO Emma Walsh recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Grattan Institute and the State Library Victoria which focused on improving female participation in the workforce. Increasing female workforce participation is one of the biggest long-term economic opportunities for governments. Australia’s female workforce participation rate is above the OECD average, but Australian […]
Leading agencies unite to release new recommendations for workplaces to support the wellbeing of families
Australia’s leading agencies dedicated to supporting families have joined forces to highlight the important need for the business community to understand and respond to the real challenges facing working families through the COVID 19 crisis and beyond – to help them ‘bounce back’ to build a stronger, more sustainable way of working and caring for […]
Business leaders gather at Sydney Opera House for a nation-first discussion on parental leave equality
“The critical goal is to increase the number of men taking primary parental leave without fear of discrimination or adverse career consequences” Emma Walsh, CEO, Parents At Work There was a pretty special feeling inside the Sydney Opera House, as these corporate, high-profile businessmen sat on stage and spoke about parental leave- partly as employers […]
The Fatherhood Penalty: It’s time for change and these UK employers are leading the way
LONDON June 2018: Parents At Work gathered thought-leaders and influencers from business, research and Government to advance parental leave equality globally “The fatherhood penalty is very real and it’s coming to a company near you.” That was the rallying call to UK businesses from the CEO of Working Families, Sarah Jackson OBE, at last week’s […]
