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.
News & Views Australian dads’ working lives (still) don’t change when a baby arrives A new Australian Institute of Family Studies report shows there has been “almost no change” in the number of dads taking up flexible work since 2008.
News & Views Diageo unveils a generous & ambitious 26-week paid parental leave policy Diageo, the parent company to Bundaberg Rum, has announced a new parental leave policy, available to all Australian employees from 1st July this year.
News & Views Why starting school is when the juggle can become a big struggle If managing the load isn’t shared between parents & if employers and workplaces aren’t accommodating, starting school can be too much.
News & Views I’m married to a ‘unicorn husband’ and some people can’t cope Neela Janakiramanan is a surgeon with a unicorn husband doing more than his fair share of the unpaid work so she can pursue her career. Others don’t get it.