With 3,000 early childhood educators set to walk off the job at 3:20pm today to protest their poverty wages, I had a strange sense of déjà vu. All the talk of the “undervaluing of women’s work” sent m…
Don’t let equal pay slide down your list of priorities or succumb to fatigue
It’s countdown to Equal Pay Day, which falls on September 4th this year. Equal Pay Day marks the additional time from the end of the previous financial year that women must work to earn the same as me…
Did Australian business leaders just pledge not to violate the most basic equal pay principle, and we’re happy about it?
Last week, 122 Australian business leaders publicly committed to closing the gender pay gap in like-for-like roles within their organisations. To support others to do the same, Male Champions of Chang…
Dads also needed in childcare Campaign for “Families”
On Sunday, News Corp and the non-profit group Parenthood launched a “Fair Go For Families” campaign about childcare. I wanted to love it. I really did. I wanted to channel Tom Cruise and jump up on th…
It’s an epidemic of mother shaming, not bad mothers
Mummy bloggers in the UK woke up earlier this week to find themselves splashed across the Daily Mail. In treatment usually reserved for the Daily Mail’s favourite straw man, immigrants, the paper opt…
It’s not good enough to accuse fathers of being uninterested shirkers
Yesterday the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) released a report that shows just 4 percent of fathers in two parent families are stay at home dads, compared to 31 percent of mums. It also…
It’s time for politicians to whistle at the women
For too long, the Liberal party has taken Australian women for granted. Kristine Ziwica says the current Government’s ‘woman problem’ is an excellent opportunity for the women of Aus…
Men who kill their partners are not ‘good blokes’ acting ‘out of character.’
There was another tragic murder suicide in Wangaratta on Anzac Day. According to police reports, Greg Floyd chased his partner Ora Holt and their four children from their home into a neighbour’s hous…
How Australia completely missed the point about “women as a drain on the economy”.
Last week, apparently, the OECD published a “provocative report” claiming “stay at home mums are a drain on the economy”, imploring them to return to work. That’s not what the report actually sa…
