News & Views Women are drinking more since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic A new study from the US has found that women are drinking more than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic.
News & Views NSW public sector to offer 14 weeks paid parental leave to both parents NSW public sector employees will soon be eligible for 14 weeks paid parental leave in the first year of their child’s life.
Advice Could success for women-owned ventures lie in growing the pipeline of female investors? Solai Valliappan thinks so. Solai Valliappan is a young tech investor who turned a page in her life after seeing a troubling lack of women in the tech investment space.
News & Views Impact of COVID-19 on women in tech ‘devastating’ says new report A Girls in Tech report reveals the devastating hit women in tech faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the rates of burn out.
Life Now is the moment for dads to speak up ‘For too long early childhood education has been framed as an issue for mums – rather than dads & parents,’ Father of 2 Andrew Hunter writes.
News & Views How the end of Jobkeeper will disproportionately affect women As Jobkeeper ends, a survey of Australian workers has revealed that more men are returning to the office than women.
News & Views Female leaders pen letter to PM: ‘Don’t forget women in the next budget’ A number of female leaders have signed a letter addressed to the Prime Minister urging him to fix workplace gender inequality.
News & Views Flexible work arrangements help women, but only if they are also offered to men Flexible arrangements might help women maintain a work-life balance, but can also weaken their position in the labour market.
News & Views Labor announces plans to mandate companies release their gender pay gap Labor has plans to put into place legislation that requires companies to publicly release their data about their gender pay gap.
Business A ‘Marshall Plan for Moms’ in the US gets further support as men sign on I first heard about the ‘Marshall Plan for Moms’ back in January when it launched, thanks to the support of 50 prominent women in the USA who called on the then-incoming Biden Administration to implement a bold 360-plan for mothers.
News & Views COVID survey shows women do much more unpaid work than men The Bureau of Statistics survey on the household impacts of Covid-19 show women do more unpaid work in the home.
News & Views Entrepreneurship and motherhood: the challenge is real For female entreprenuers, there is no side hustle. There is hard work, compromise and regular doses of mother’s guilt.