News & Views Why it’s time to stop using ‘mum’ as shorthand for ‘parent’ If the assumption that it is always mum, not dad, that does the parenting isn’t challenged or questioned it will never change.
News & Views ‘I wasn’t just sad, I was sick’: Brigid Glanville on her battle with postnatal depression ABC reporter Brigid Glanville shares her experience with postnatal depression with total candour to help people understand the reality of the illness.
Uncategorised An extraordinary year for women as record numbers contest US midterm elections It was said that 2018 would be the ‘year of women’, and next week’s midterms in the United States could be the test of just what that means.
News & Views ‘I am doing everything & you need to do more’: A universal household dispute? ‘Basically my husband and I have the same argument on a four week rotation. It reaches a point where I say ‘I doing everything, you need to do more’.
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)
News & Views The twitter thread making parents laugh & cry Maxine Beneba Clarke pitches a reality TV show where non-parents have to get 3 kids to school without before or after-school care & still work full time.
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.
Life The decision to be child free is a choice: It’s time to stop the judgement Women choosing not to have children aren’t a rare breed, with one in four deliberately making the choice to be child free despite living in a world that raises them to be mothers.
Ed's Blog Let’s make motherhood a campaign asset in Australian politics Record numbers of women are running for office in the US — and many are actively promoting the fact they are young mothers.
sport Serena Williams storms into Wimbledon Final, less than a year after giving birth Serena Williams will compete in Wimbledon’s grand final tomorrow night, ten months on from a traumatic childbirth which nearly ended her life.
Ed's Blog When feminists don’t want to ‘work anymore’? The case for dads doing more is clear. 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.
News & Views The hypocrisy is blatant & barefaced: Why Jane Caro can’t stand Mother’s Day It is Mother’s Day where the full force of society’s hypocrisy and sentimentality lets rip, Jane Caro writes. Women need more love and less sentimentality.