Motherhood penalty

The cost of bringing a new baby home is significant.

Pregnant employees and new mothers returning to the workforce are experiencing alarming rates of discrimination, sexism and exclusion.

Working mothers can very easily articulate how they have grown a host of highly transferable skills that amplify their paid work.

What do mums really want for Mother’s Day? A more equitable society: equal chores, shared mental load, end to motherhood penalty, involved dads, affordable childcare.

New Treasury analysis shows that mum’s earnings falling by an average of 55 per cent in the first five years of parenthood. 

In the US, single women without children are earning more than single, child-free men, new research reveals.

You can’t have a conversation about women’s economic empowerment, safety and participation, without considering this concerning stat: Australian mothers earn less than half of what they were earning prior to giving birth, in the first five years of being a parent.

Mothers in Ads launched a campaign for bids for a $876,000 bottle of hand cream to highlight the cost of motherhood

The failure of Australia’s parenting policies means the motherhood penalty costs the average working woman $696K in earnings & $180K in super.

Consider the hidden plight of sole parent mums who are unacknowledged and alone, who live in fear of how they can provide a roof over their child’s head.

Former reality TV contestant Lisa Hyde has faced criticism for her parenting after showed footage of her baby daughter’s $1700 bassinet.

These complexities were not worked into the existing ParentsNext framework, and as such, the policy requires urgent attention.