workforce participation

Australia’s unemployment rate has dropped to 4.2 per cent, with the number of women working full-time growing by 40,000 in July.

The Coalition’s increase in child-care subsidies is a step in the right direction, though more needs to be done, writes Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths and Owain Emslie.

Australia’s education system is serving girls well, but broader policies settings are failing to promote equality for women later in life.

COVID-19 is threatening to reverse hard fought gains for women in STEM, according to a new report commissioned by the government released today.

Revamping the childcare subsidy, proposed by KPMG, could see working parents better off and boost Australia’s economic growth by $700 million.

For workplace parity instead of asking how we can reduce women’s time out of the workforce we should ask how we can lift male participation at home.

In Senate Estimates on Monday 18th of February 2019 it was confirmed by the office for women that Scott Morrison has never met with them.

The 2017 Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia HILDA survey shows there are men who prefer women not to work: It is unconscionable.

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.