News & Views NSW public sector to offer 14 weeks paid parental leave to both parents NSW public sector employees will soon be eligible for 14 weeks paid parental leave in the first year of their child’s life.
Women's Health News For new and expectant mothers, the benefits of yoga are endless There is no way I could have survived pregnancy and the early years of parenthood without yoga, writes Rachael Coopes.
Jugglehood ‘There’s no going back’: The pandemic has shone a light on the flex future we should strive for For too long, it’s been an uphill battle for working parents (predominantly mothers). Research shows that the old way wasn’t working.
Jugglehood How I learned to stop worrying and love my daughter’s dance lessons The patriarchy teaches us that anything feminine is inherently less-than or frivolous. Taking my daughter to dance lessons changed my mind.
News & Views To parents of babies & toddlers who need the outside world right now For lots of parents of babies & toddlers isolation isn’t a huge stretch but for those parents craving connection outside, further isolation is torture.
News & Views Five facts every Australian needs to know about men at work Annabel Crabb presented at the Australian HR Institute’s IWD breakfast with humour, sharp analysis & an abundance of facts about men at work.
News & Views My wife doesn’t ‘do it all’. We ‘do it all’ together. My wife, Nikki, is seen to be able ‘to do it all’ because she doesn’t ‘do it all’. Together, we make it all happen writes Adam Clarke.
News & Views A rare Bluey blunder: Chilli isn’t ‘falling short’ because she returned to work Blatant mother-shaming might be expected from Leunig but from the creators of Bluey? Hell to the no. To their credit they changed it quickly.
News & Views KPMG proposes childcare subsidy overhaul to remove penalties for working parents Revamping the childcare subsidy, proposed by KPMG, could see working parents better off and boost Australia’s economic growth by $700 million.
News & Views Expensive childcare is making it harder for women to return to work In the UK, women with children are less likely to be in paid work than men who have children or women who don’t have a family.
News & Views The question some dads can’t answer that says everything: Annabel Crabb on Men at Work The purpose of Annabel Crabb’s quarterly essay Men at Work isn’t to denigrate men for not doing more: it examines what prevents them doing more.
News & Views ‘We need more babies around’: NZ’s speaker Trevor Mallard cradles baby in parliament & the image goes global The image of New Zealand’s speaker, Trevor Mallard, cradling the baby of a fellow parliamentarian while presiding over a debate has gone viral.