News & Views When your career is public but your caregiving is invisible Today’s sandwich generation refers to all of the people feeling squeezed by competing care responsibilities in midlife.
News & Views Low pay, more unpaid care: The double burden for women in feminised industries Women in highly feminised industries face a double burden of low wages and more out-of-hours caring roles, that higher-paid workers do not face to the same extent.
Local Amanda Rishworth launches new national carer strategy to support three million unpaid carers A new ten-year National Carer Strategy has been released by the government today to better support Australia’s three million unpaid carers.
News & Views Men think they do more unpaid domestic labour than they actually do Australian women continue to take on a disproportionate burden of unpaid domestic work compared to men — especially the care of others.
News & Views New parliamentary report recommends better support for unpaid carers A landmark report on the status of unpaid carers in Australia was released this morning and was be tabled in parliament today.
World Ireland to vote on removing ‘a woman’s place is in the home’ from constitution on International Women’s Day Ireland’s national referendum to remove outdated statutes that a ‘woman’s place is in the home’ is approaching on 8 March.
Life Census shows (again) that women do more housework. Now is the time to invest in interventions We must redress the challenges of unpaid housework and the mental load on women’s physical, mental and economic health and well-being.
