News & Views Time Use Survey reveals women still carry the bulk of unpaid work The 2024 Time Use Survey has been released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, giving a snapshot of how Australians spend their time.
News & Views Unpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion, new research shows. See how much your unpaid labour is worth Women’s unpaid work contributes $427 billion to Australia’s economy each year, yet it remains officially unrecognised.
News & Views New study finds the gender earnings gap could be halved if we reined in the long hours often worked by men A new study of heterosexual couples in Australia and Germany reveals the economic costs to women when their partners work long hours
News & Views ‘Care is in everything we do and everything we are’: the work of Indigenous women needs to be valued To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more all-encompassing than traditional definitions. We need a new approach to appreciating, their work.
News & Views Progress on gender equality went backwards in 2023, according to Financy Women’s Index The latest Financy Women’s Index (FWX), fell 1 point (pt) to 75.5 pts out of 100 over the 2023 calendar year.
News & Views Volunteers keep Australia moving, but their unpaid work won’t be explored in the Census For many Australians who spend chunks of their time volunteering, the Census will not ask details about the work they do.
Soapbox The invisible work of women: counting the costs of the mental load Keeping the financial impacts of the mental load invisible enables this sexist status quo to continue, Chandel Brandimarti writes.
News & Views Reforming ‘dad leave’ is a baby step towards greater gender equality Modest changes to Australia’s paid parental provision can help address the gender gap in unpaid and paid work between mothers and fathers
News & Views Huge rise in working from home but women still do lion’s share of housework & caring There’s barely been a blip in the number of mothers “typically” caring for children at home, despite a massive increase in the rate of both mothers and fathers working from home.
News & Views After Robodebt, it’s time to address ParentsNext ParentsNext compels mothers into makework rather than work and devalues the unpaid caring work they do, writes Elise Klein and Eve Vincent.
News & Views A female CEO gives up work because her husband can’t cope at home. Who or what’s the blame? If some men are shit (and again, for the avoidance of doubt, I do concede some are), we also have shit systems that preserve men’s privilege
News & Views If you thought ‘that was a lot of money’ consider the value of women’s work If American women received a minimum wage for the unpaid care work they do around the house, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.
