News & Views Why I’m ditching the super parent fantasy in 2019 Rob Sturrock spent 2018 trying to be a super parent when he could have just appreciated his mere survival. This year he’s ditching the fixation.
News & Views The problem with Kelly O’Dwyer leaving Canberra Even before I read the reasons that Liberal minister Kelly O’Dwyer was exiting politics I understood. Of course I did. Who wouldn’t?
News & Views I’m married to a ‘unicorn husband’ and some people can’t cope Neela Janakiramanan is a surgeon with a unicorn husband doing more than his fair share of the unpaid work so she can pursue her career. Others don’t get it.
News & Views Piers Morgan mocks Daniel Craig for wearing a baby carrier. And he’s not even joking. “Emasculating, embarrassing & unnecessary” is how Piers Morgan describes babycarriers after mocking Bond actor Daniel Craig for wearing one.
News & Views An inconvenient truth & the solution to ‘having it all’ we cannot ignore British author Christine Armstrong writes about women having it all in her book The Mother of All Jobs: How to have Children and a Career and Stay Sane(ish)
Ed's Blog The power of men talking about managing fatherhood & work For the first time in Australian history business leaders converged to fix the spotlight on fatherhood & how employers can help support men as carers.
News & Views It’s time to radically reimagine the role of fathers in workplaces & homes With little fanfare, Liana Leach at The ANU, and Amanda Cooklin at La Trobe University, co-hosted a one-day forum in Canberra on the role of fathers.
Ed's Blog The power of dads working part time & talking about it The resignation of Tim Hammond, and his statement that he simply cannot work as a federal MP and be the father he wants to be to his three small children, has prompted a conversation about dads working part time.
News & Views Labor MP Tim Hammond resigns: ‘I cannot be an MP & the dad I want to be’ Tim Hammond resigns from parliament immediately, triggering a by-election in Perth saying he cannot be the dad and husband he wants to be while an MP.
Soapbox The term ‘part time work’ is a relic that’s hurting working parents Part-time work has accumulated such baggage and become so gendered that it hurts a lot more working parents’ careers than it helps.
News & Views The trouble with the minister promoting shared parental leave…who can’t access shared parental leave Andrew Griffiths is the UK’s business minister who is currently promoting shared parental leave and admits to Emma Barnett that he can’t access it himself.
Soapbox Where are the ‘dadpreneurs’? They’re running businesses & their parental status is moot Where are the ‘dadpreneurs’ Christie Whitehill asks, as she explains the problem with ‘mumpreneur’ which demotes a woman’s achievements in business.