Georgie Dent

When speaking to the Minister for Early Childhood and Childcare, Kate Ellis, about the affordability and accessibility of childcare she is struck by something in my voice.

A lot has now been said about the opposition leader Tony Abbott referring to Liberal candidate Fiona Scott’s ‘sex appeal‘.

Cost is the biggest obstacle the Shadow Minister for Early Childhood and Childcare Sussan Ley wants to overcome.

Yesterday Tony Abbott confirmed that if the Coalition is elected, women who give birth after July 2015 will be paid their existing salary, up to a cap of $150,000, for 26 weeks.

The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirm the pay gap between men and women not only persists but is growing.

On Friday night I attended a dinner for some Australian alumni of The University of Oxford, a group of which, I should note, that I’m not a member.

Earlier in the week I expressed my reservations about Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave policy.

There is no direct correlation between confidence and competence.

It’s been more than a year since Anne-Marie Slaughter penned her prolific and ground-breaking missive Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.

One thing is certain about paid parental leave; it generates a lot of discussion.

Earlier this week Jane Caro gave an answer to the question she likes the least but is asked the most: are women their own worst enemies? If you read her piece, which you really should, you will know they’re not.

Talking to Helen Conway is invariably depressing but it’s no indictment on her.