News & Views Why investing in high quality early education & care is a silver bullet for women On 12th October Georgie Dent will host an event with Sam Mostyn, Lisa Annese & Tarla Lambert to discuss why ECEC is so important for women.
News & Views A near fully funded childcare system will help Australia rebuild its economy, says KPMG Increasing the childcare subsidy to 95 per cent would boost GDP by up to $7.4 billion per year, at a cost of $5.4 billion, according to KPMG.
News & Views What was shared at the Morrison Government’s ‘Women’s Job Creation’ Forum Kristine Scheul, Chair of the NAWIC, attended the ‘Women’s Jobs Creation Forum’ held by the Office for Women. She shares more of what happened on the day.
News & Views The heartbreaking prospect of asking grandparents to stay away Grandparents and parents are being forced to make difficult decisions about whether grandparents care for grandchildren in this global pandemic.
News & Views Pay rises for brain builders: Why early childhood educators need to be paid more The work early childhood educators undertake is hard and valuable. Human brains learn more in the first five years than at any other time in their lives.
Uncategorised How women fare in NSW and the concerns to be noted Inactive lifestyles and a stark gender gap in part time work are just some of the concerns we have from the latest report on women in NSW.
News & Views Part-time work up, but there’s been a drop in number of women working full-time Part-time work is up for women, but full-time work is down, according to figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Ed's Blog In news that will shock few parents childcare fees are on the rise. Again. A report in The Australian shows that childcare fees are being hiked again which will eat into the benefit families were meant to derive from reforms.
News & Views The Glass Ceiling Index: Where are the best & worst places to be a working woman? The Economist’s 2018 glass ceiling index is a yearly assessment of where women have the best and worst chances of equal treatment at work. Australia ranks 16.
News & Views “Ask Treasury”: The Office for Women’s response to the Budget’s impact on women. Senator Michaelia Cash and the Office for Women’s response to the Budget’s impact on women as outlined in the NFAW Gender Lens report is to ask treasury.
News & Views Damning Budget analysis shows some women will be hit with an effective marginal tax rate of 100% Budget analysis from National Foundation for Australian Women Gender Lens report shows some women will be hit with an effective marginal tax rate of 100%
News & Views How Australia completely missed the point about “women as a drain on the economy”. The OECD report was about women’s workforce participation rates in Australia not stay-at-home mums being a drain on the economy.