When I was doing my PhD research in Germany, the WZB - a social science research institute in Berlin - had a family room dedicated for after-hours childcare with an educator. While I was taking...
Category: Paid Parental Leave
The revolutionary in Whitlam’s Government who fought for women
In Old Parliament House, Canberra, (now the Museum of Australian Democracy), there’s an exhibition called Australian Women Changemakers. Along with the new crop of brilliant young...
Audit reveals annual gender pay gap of thousands
You can’t manage what you don’t measure and you can't fix what you can't see. And what is clear for everyone to see reading the results of Australia’s first gender equality audit in the public...
Paid parental leave: women left holding the baby
Thinking of parenthood in the 1950s conjures a picture of a perfectly coiffed wife, cherubic baby in arms, cheerily waving goodbye to her husband - the gallant breadwinner - as he heads off to work....