Labor and the Coalition have announced their parental leave policies. If you are planning to have children, you should be familiar with what they’re offering.
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Current parental leave schemes reinforce old gender stereotypes and the pay gap between women and men. Overseas experience shows better targeted leave for new fathers helps everyone.
This important benefit does more than just help parents in terms of dollars and cents.
The lack of reform to childcare - a huge cost-of-living pressure - is the biggest missed opportunity of the week.
Is the budget really as “women friendly” as the Morrison government would like us to believe?
You might expect progressive policies in our universities, but a parental leave system of primary and secondary caregivers – the first 93% women, the second 96% men – perpetuates the gender gap.
Polls have consistently found robust support for this benefit, with a growing share of the public approving of paid time off for dads.
If governments are looking for a post-pandemic “baby boom” to help populations grow, then they should increase the amount and duration of paid parental leave for both mums and partners.
Modest changes to Australia’s paid parental provision can help address the gender gap in unpaid and paid work between mothers and fathers.
Stay-at-home parents have a hard time reentering the workforce after spending time away.
Encouraging fathers to take paternity leave has positive, perhaps even surprising, results.
Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
Breast milk contains ingredients in concentrations that change over the course of the day. Researchers think milk is chrononutrition, carrying molecular messages to help set a baby’s internal clock.
The transition to parenthood comes with plenty of stress. A psychology researcher suggests that paid family leave could help lift some of the burden – with positive health benefits down the road.
If President Trump follows through on his campaign promise, new mothers may soon have six weeks of guaranteed paid leave. But something is keeping them from using the benefits they already have.
In times of budgetary constraint, the cost of Australia's welfare system has been regarded by many in the Coalition as a drag on economic growth. Labor's Jenny Macklin has a different take.
Australian government proposals to ban so-called “double dipping” with paid parental leave (PPL) risks scaling back health benefits for women who take time off to care for their babies.
Before fiddling with the design of paid parental leave, we need to be clear about the purpose of the policy.
South African law requires surrogate mothers to hand infants to their legal parents without undue delay. But it doesn’t provide leave for these parents to care for their infants. That is set to change.
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Peter Whiteford est un·e adhérent·e de The Conversation
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor Political Economy and Deputy Director, The Gender Equality in Working Life Research Initiative, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, Kennesaw State University
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Professor of Employment Relations, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia
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Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Business Statistics, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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