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 […]
Employer Roundtable Webinar Event – An Invitation
The future of work and family – creating family friendly workplaces On behalf of APLEN (Advancing Parental Leave Equality Network), Parents At Work and KPMG, we invite you to join us for this webinar as we share highlights of the National Working Families Report and discuss implications for the future of work and family, especially […]
Modern Families Index 2020 – How do the UK and Australia compare?
Each year, the Modern Families Index provides a comprehensive insight into how UK working families are managing the balance between career and family life. Are employers being family friendly? Is care equally distributed at home? How are parents managing childcare while working? Now in its eighth year, the report answers questions like this and more, […]
Achieving Parental Leave Equality Sydney: Roundtable Discussion Report
‘Despite the rapid rate in which mothers have returned to the workforce over the past 10 – 20 years, there has been almost zero shift in the percentage of men taking up parental leave or opting to stay at home as the primary carer.’ – Excerpt from Roundtable Discussion Report The first national roundtable discussion […]
Advancing Parental Leave Equality and Introducing Shared Care in Australia – a Parents At Work Whitepaper
Australia is coming up short when it comes to Paid Parental Leave, and the conversation around the need for ‘shared care’ and parental leave gender equality is essential. The old adage of ‘mum is at home while dad works’ has become antiquated but our country’s workplace parental leave policies are yet to fully catch up, […]
