mother’s day

The grieving is relentless. But here’s how Kimberley Smith found support in a network of women called Motherless Daughteres.

The history of protesting mums is rich and influential. It’s time we recognised this group as significantly active.

Consider the hidden plight of sole parent mums who are unacknowledged and alone, who live in fear of how they can provide a roof over their child’s head.

Yasmin Poole has been interviewing women across the Pacific about lockdowns and the gendered impacts of COVID-19.

Ask any woman how her life changed after having children I’d wager she told you that she felt the weight of the gender roles shift when she became a mother.

This pandemic is showing just how much unpaid work mothers do. Often on top of their roles in ‘essential services’.

A lot of that changed the night Rhee Kennedy attended a dinner organised by Motherless Daughters Australia, just three months after her mother’s death.

The top-ranking site on Google if you search ‘International Women’s Day’ is a corporate entity. Proof IWD has become a corporate mother’s day?

I am on the record as a hater of Mother’s Day. Not a hater of mothers themselves, but of the absurdity of their so-called special day, writes Jane Caro.

It’s called The Parent Gift Gap, and it could be seeing Australians spending more money on Father’s Day than we are on Mother’s Day. 

The ads, cards and images that have been flooding television commercials, catalogues and social media feeds in the lead up to Mother’s Day, in which mums the world over are pampered, tell a single compelling story.