caring responsibilities

Female university graduates are expected to earn 27% less than their male counterparts – A$750,000 – over their career, a 2019 study found.

Our workplaces need to be more family friendly – and employers and the government must be prepared to lead the change head on.

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.

The government has acknowledged the disproportionate effects of this crisis on women. So what action can turn the ‘she-cession’ into a ‘she-recovery’?

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.

 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.

In the past year, 13% of women have been asked in a job interview about their plans to have children or their caring responsibilities.

Forget red roses, if you want to make women happy as the Valentine’s Day marketing trope suggests, this is the wishlist to consider.