Parental Leave Equality
One Dads 14 Week Paid Parental Leave Experience
How do other families do it? Parental leave that is. One may assume there’s only one way to do it and that is to just take what you can get – be that from the Government or an employer. But in fact there are so many ways you can take parental leave these days. So,…
Read MoreWATCH: The Future of Work + Family Webinar for Employers Managing in a COVID-19 World
WATCH NOW “We know in terms of looking at the long-term impact – from other epidemics like Ebola in Africa, SARS and Swine Flu – what was found in Africa, for example, is that the men’s income return to their pre-outbreak was at a faster rate than the women’s so we do need to…
Read MoreImpressive 300% Increase in Men Taking Parental Leave with QBE’s New Gender-Equal Policy
In March 2019, QBE launched their paid parental leave initiative ‘Share the Care’. This new policy eliminated the gendered terms of “primary” and “secondary” carer, and instead offered its existing 12-weeks paid parental leave to every new parent – acknowledging the important roles all parents play within a working family. In the new policy employees…
Read MoreMore acceptable for women than men to use family friendly work options?
International Women’s Day 2020: It’s time for Parental Leave Equality This International Women’s Day, as we celebrate ‘Each For Equal’, Parents At Work is calling for vital reform of Australia’s gendered approach to paid parental leave to ensure all parents have an equal opportunity to share the care. Australia does not currently have a shared-care…
Read More‘A change in attitude and a change in language’ – ABC interview on making Australia’s Paid Parental Leave scheme better
In an interview with ABC Radio’s Jonathan Gould, Emma Walsh, CEO of Parents At Work, shared her thoughts on the current Paid Parental Leave Scheme in Australia, and what government and employers can be doing better. Emma discusses the recent National Working Families Report results, which found that men are still facing barriers when it…
Read MoreGender-Equal Parental Leave in Action – A Professional Couple’s Perspective
It’s not often you get to hear from a professional couple who have both taken parental leave. In this special podcast we interview Michael Brosnan, Manager at Deloitte, and Annaliese Van Riet, People and Culture Leader, about their experience of becoming new parents and how Deloitte’s parental policies have made achieving a balance between work…
Read MoreWhy Norton Rose Fulbright is Making Parental Leave for Men Easier than Ever
How law firms can embrace being family-friendly There’s no doubt that for many of those who pursue a career in law it has often meant having to make a choice between investing in work over family life – and the impact of this choice differs starkly by gender. For men, it usually means sacrificing family…
Read MoreLiberating Men From Boardrooms to Playgrounds – Why we need an urgent rethink on parental leave in Australia
The ‘maternity leave’ debate is alive and kicking almost ten years on since the introduction of the government’s first paid parental leave scheme. But this time, it’s not about mums taking leave – it’s about dads. And rightly so. ABC journalist, presenter and author of ‘The Wife Drought’, Annabel Crabb, recently published her Quarterly Essay,…
Read MoreRevealed: Dual-Career Couples struggling to strike a work/family balance
Picture this – it’s Monday morning, the juggle has begun. There’s a need to be in office for a team meeting kicking off at 8.30am, your partner is in the same boat. It’s a 45-minute journey to work, there are two kids to get to school plus pre-school and drop off and pick up to…
Read MoreBusiness Leaders Event Launching Kiwi Dads Exhibition for Parental Leave Equality in Auckland Today
Today, Parents At Work officially launched the Kiwi Dads Photograph Exhibition in partnership with Global Women and The Embassy of Sweden. It was another inspiring and thought-provoking event with a range of representatives from all aspects of our community including government and our corporate business community. Exhibited alongside the original and award winning Swedish Dads…
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