Gender equality
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…
Read MoreLeading 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…
Read More“Do we think dads are just for weekends?”: Annabel Crabb says dads need same support as mums
‘Why do we fret so extensively about the impact on children of not seeing their mothers enough, but care so little about what happens when it’s dad who’s always away?’ Annabel Crabb Annabel Crabb is one of Australia’s most popular political commentators, and her new quarterly essay titled ‘Men At Work – Australia’s Parenting Trap’…
Read MorePushing Uphill – Working parents struggling to keep up, new HILDA report finds
The picture is fairly bleak. Dual income households are on the rise, traditional gender roles are remaining much the same, the cost of childcare is huge, and our mums and dads are feeling more stressed than ever, according to the latest HILDA survey results released yesterday. The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA)…
Read MoreDoes gender inequality start in the home? The latest UN Women report says it does
The conversation around gender inequality often finds itself focusing on the workplace or social setting – women in leadership, gender pay gap, glass ceiling are phrases we now strongly associate with gender equality – all focused on fixing the problem in the workplace. Yet a new UN Women’s flagship report, Progress of the World’s Women…
Read MoreDads want to do more caring but are struggling to make it a reality, says State of the World’s Fathers Report 2019
With Father’s Day approaching in the UK, USA and many other countries on June 16, the release of the latest State of World’s Fathers 2019 Report couldn’t be more timely. Promundo, a leading organisation globally in promoting gender justice and preventing violence, release this report every two years, and this year’s draws on analysis from…
Read MoreWho Said Men Don’t Want To Take Parental Leave?
It’s time to think radically about parental leave equality “There’s every reason to want men’s parental leave to be a mirror of women’s parental leave. And there’s every reason to believe it will never happen” according to Girard Dorney, HRM Online article last month Parental Leave for Men is a Great Thing We May Never…
Read MoreNEWS TODAY: What’s the link between ‘shared parental leave’ and ‘gender equality’? The UK Government thinks it’s big and today our Government announced a step in the right direction for Australian families
This month, Elysia McCaffrey, the Deputy Head of the UK Government Equalities Office is in Australia touring with Libby Lyon’s Director of Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency. Together they are reflecting on the progress made in Australia over the past five years when it comes to the gender pay gap, and how this compares to what…
Read MoreMedibank Making History: Re-writing Parental Leave Policy – Podcast
Medibank made history earlier this year when they rewrote the rulebook, scrapping ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ carer labels and adopting a fair approach to Parental Leave. In this podcast, Medibank’s Kylie Bishop (Group Executive, People & Culture) is interviewed by the Parents At Work CEO, Emma Walsh. This podcast is sure to inspire other HR…
Read MoreBusiness 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…
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