childcare

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.

Life advice from Quentin Bryce. What I learned after a morning with the author of Dear Quentin on childcare, motherhood, resilience and sexism.

An interview with Simon Birmingham by Georgina Dent about the recent childcare reform, combining a career in canberra with kids and women in politics.

The OECD report was about women’s workforce participation rates in Australia not stay-at-home mums being a drain on the economy.

According to the Pregnancy and Employment Transitions Survey, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics last week, 27% of women who returned to work following the birth of a child relied on grandparents as their main form of childcare.

Just about every time I click on a YouTube video, watch television or open a newspaper, I’m confronted with federal government advertisements informing me that we can claim a non-means tested childcare rebate.

Ask any working mum about her secret to success and there’s one common denominator: access to quality and affordable childcare.