childcare

More of us are using formal childcare in order to participate in the workforce, yet childcare is also becoming less affordable. 

Flexible childcare is a reality at this one Melbourne-based centre. Only use half a day? Only pay for it. Need evening care? It’s available 6 nights a week.

One childcare operator is now offering $5 dinner boxes to parents picking up their kids from their centres because for parents, dinner time is chaos time.

The childcare changes have sparked debate about whether or not women can afford to work. Dr Neela Janakiramanan writes that’s the wrong conversation.

The motherhood penalty describes the detrimental financial impact that women wear upon having children. Anything that further entrenches it is a problem.

As new child care arrangements kick in for parents this week, Labor MP Susan Templeman fears some women will be worse off.

A report in The Australian shows that childcare fees are being hiked again which will eat into the benefit families were meant to derive from reforms.

Melbourne University tax professor Miranda Stewart says the cost of work remains too high for women and the proposed tax cuts won’t help.

Until we seriously consider how fathers can do more at home, mothers will continue to struggle to combine work and family.  And unsurprisingly, many of them, feminists included, will decide they can’t. It’s time for dads to do more.

Too often piecemeal solutions have been offered to fix childcare. Wholesale change is required to benefit children, educators and families.

Melinda Gates has written an op-ed on LinkedIn arguing that American workplaces are designed for dads not daughters. She says workplaces need to catch up.

Swedish Dads Johan Bavman has photographed 25 dads in Sweden who took more than 6 months leave with their babies and it captures the magic.