Ed’s Blog

When one half of the population pushes for flexible working arrangements more than the other, you can see why certain stereotypes regarding who does what in the home remain.

Over the next 33 days we can only hope our major political parties address the ‘women’s vote’ by doing more than putting their still too small representation of female candidates and the wives and daughters of their leaders on the campaign trail.

Day one of the election campaign and working parents got some attention Monday by way of Kevin Rudd’s $450 million promise to boost after-school hours care in 500 schools.

Leading women have been incredibly generous with their time since we launched Women’s Agenda one year ago today.

A few weeks earlier I had excitedly accepted a job editing a website for career-minded women like myself and I couldn’t wait to get started.

At first I was reluctant to express my view on a segment that appeared on Channel Nine’s Mornings program last Friday about working mums.

A day after attracting global headlines for switching ‘repository’ for ‘suppository’ Opposition leader Tony Abbott has had another slip of the tongue.

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.