The choice about which parent will take care of a child in the early months of life often determines who will end up as the secondary-income earner,a role that carries significant financial penalties.
Without some big changes,don’t think you can count on women to be both producers and reproducers for Australia.
The data has given ammunition to groups pushing for super contributions to be paid on parental leave.
After months of soul-searching about the way women are treated in Australia,including in Parliament,the federal government has a chance next week to show what it can do to improve the lives of half the Australian population.
This is not an ideological argument – it is an economic one. The business benefits for universal paid-parental leave are clear and compelling.
Five female economists outline what they want to see in the upcoming federal budget to ensure women’s economic security.
Twenty ASX-listed companies have joined 38 other businesses to provide paid parental leave for stillbirth.
Labor is considering major policy promises,including 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave,ambitious emissions targets and raising the super guarantee to 15 per cent.
Extending men’s access to paid parental leave could help to solve a gendered health crisis that has been building for many years.
Independent MP Zali Steggall will tell Parliament that fathers and mothers should each be given six months’ paid parental leave to boost women’s economic equality.
A decade on,the nation’s paid parental leave scheme is yielding clear results. Mothers are less likely to be depressed. But Australia’s scheme remains relatively stingy.