This article was written by me (Ginger Gorman) for the publication Women's Agenda in my capacity as a freelance journalist. It's republished here with full permission. You can read the original...
Category: Parenting
Gender gaps in parenting: Who bears the burden?
The Uniting Families Report 2024 is the first in a 10-year series of reports that seeks to explore family life in Australia, especially the families in which children and young people are being...
Measuring what matters, getting care metrics right
Declan and Sara have three young kids, including a newborn. A lot of caring happens in their household, often when other things, such as housework, are also being done. The care work in this...
Investing in breastfeeding: Sustainable solutions for global health
In a recent paper published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), we argued that women’s unpaid work needs better recognition through decent time use statistics as well as by...
WFH producing economic benefits office rules would quash
More of us have been in paid work this past year than ever before. A big part of that is because more of us have been able to work from home than ever before. The proportion of Australians in paid...
Why don’t PhD candidates get paid parental leave?
In 2021 I was mid-way through my PhD program and three months pregnant. Until that point, I hadn’t thought much about parental leave—it’s the law in Australia, right? So it was a shock to discover...
Innovative scholarship for researchers helps alleviate unpaid caring
Grassroots social enterprise, Franklin Women has awarded six health researchers funding to alleviate barriers associated with unpaid caring responsibilities so they can take advantage of career...
“It illuminated the experience of psychosis for me”
And Then She Fell, by US author Alicia Elliott, is a mind-bending and slinking novel unpacking themes of motherhood, mental health, Indigeneity, dispossession and connection to land and culture –...
Mothers in higher ed, research need more support
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...