paid parental leave

We talk the latest game-changers for women at work. There have been some big ones this week. Also best reads and watching, all in 30 minutes.

14 weeks paid leave for ALL new parents? Now that is progress. Medibank’s policy sends a signal to corporate workplaces everywhere.

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.

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.

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.

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

I was recently phoned by a journalist and asked to reflect on what the Labor government had done for gender equality.

Recently, debates about policies have disappeared under an avalanche of sexist, misogynist nonsense and the commentary on it.

During a recent interview with Ann Sherry, who is arguably the architect of paid maternity leave in corporate Australia, she expressed her disappointment that the government paid parental leave debate has been “hijacked by politics” – a debate about privileged women versus ordinary working women.

Tony Abbott is set to become Australia’s next Prime Minister after leading the Coalition to a resounding victory at the ballot box.