childcare

The HILDA Survey suggests single-parent households on Australia are abandoning formal childcare as they face greater poverty rates.

Anthony Albanese and Labor have responded to calls from Australian families and working women promising a $6 billion child care reform.

One third of one percent of the entire history-making, big spending budget goes to women. That’s 0.038% of around $500 billion.

Whether families actually save anything at all depends on where they live and what childcare provider they use, writes Kate Noble.

As the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on women’s economic security bite, we face a critical crossroads.

A group of predominately women-led businesses are spearheading an urgent campaign calling on the Government to make early childhood education and care free.

Parents unable to use childcare services over the next six weeks, during Melbourne’s stage four lockdown, will be provided with an extra 30 days of “allowable absences”.

Thousands of educators in long day childcare services across Melbourne have no guarantee of income for at least the next 6 weeks.

As child-care centres close in Melbourne, the focus needs to be on what governments can do to cushion the impact on working parents.

A lot of effort’s going into promoting women in STEM but there’s one thing that’s standing in the way: unpaid work and the cost of childcare

Our workplaces need to be more family friendly – and employers and the government must be prepared to lead the change head on.

The end of free childcare is a double hit to working women. It hits an industry mostly staffed by women & will make it more difficult for women to work.