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Tackling the gender pay gap must take into account the way that part-time workers are treated.
Labor is promising to help hundreds of thousands of families have access to more affordable childcare. This is an important investment but the details of how it will work must be given priority.
We know summer school holidays can be challenging, stressful and expensive for working parents but we still know very little about how families juggle conflicting demands.
Universal low-cost childcare and workplace flexibility will help mothers return to the workplace and are important investments in the Australian workforce.
Men under 35 want to take a more active role in caring for their children than older generations.
Family day care workers have much in common with home-based workers in the garment industry. But the latter are classed as employees, resulting in better representation and protected work conditions.
An 85-95% effective marginal tax rate means the second earner in a low-income family can increase from two days' work a week to three, four or five days and be better off by only about $4,000 a year.
Free childcare schemes aren't working and babies are too important to be left on the shelf.
Why does childcare work have such a status problem in Britain?
New research on Latin America's four recent female presidents disproves the idea that merely putting a woman in power will improve gender equality.
Mandatory sleep times in early childhood settings do not work for children, educators or parents, and need to change.
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Professor, University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of The Policy Lab, University of Melbourne
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Professor, Deputy Director, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Early Childhood, Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London
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NHMRC Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester
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WISERD Researcher, Bangor University
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Assistant Professor of Politics, Occidental College
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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Education Policy Lead, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor of Public Affairs and Faculty Director of the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
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Associate Professor, University of Miami
