parental leave

It’s the full-timer’s lesser sister, and as soon as you take on the title, you became tainted by its bad rep.

Returning to work after parental leave can feel loaded. Jess Heading dispels 5 of the myths she hears most regularly that hold returners back.

Medibank introduced a policy this year offering all eligible parents 14 weeks paid parental leave and ditched the ‘primary’ & ‘secondary’ carer labels.

‘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’.

For the first time in Australian history business leaders converged to fix the spotlight on fatherhood & how employers can help support men as carers.

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.

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

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.

Only 4% of households in Australia have a stay at home dad. It’s not because men are shirkers it’s that we don’t support fathers as carers.

It has always surprised me to hear children referred to as though they are some kind of consumer product or accessory.