Research shows a classed and racialized divide among women caring for their children in Canada today. It’s a divide that is having a negative financial impact on immigrant women doing this work.
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Karina Gould’s parental leave is similar to that of many Canadians. Yet there are key differences, and they offer lessons on how parental leave could be redesigned to help more Canadian parents.
Shared parental leave requires mothers to give up some of their maternity leave.
Women’s Day is used to draw attention to the issues women still face in South Africa.
As participation levels rise, TV viewing figures increase and sponsorship income improves year on year, what’s left to achieve for women in football?
Sex-based policies can lead to backlash and further discrimination in the workplace.
Spain is the only country in the world with the same length of maternity leave for mothers and fathers from 2021.
Female leaders tend to open people’s perceptions of what is possible for other women in politics – but the job is also still fraught with double standards and unique risks.
The domestic workers’ place of work, as a private household, is difficult to monitor. It is therefore challenging for government to enforce current legislation.
This important benefit does more than just help parents in terms of dollars and cents.
Labour MP Stella Creasy’s battle over maternity pay shows the need for gender-sensitive parliaments.
Research shows women who have experienced miscarriage are at twice the risk of experiencing depression and anxiety and four times the risk of suicide. That’s why workplaces need to step up.
Polls have consistently found robust support for this benefit, with a growing share of the public approving of paid time off for dads.
Designed to encourage an equal distribution of childcare duties, the government’s policy was flawed to begin with
If the plan is fully phased in as proposed, workers could get up to $4,000 a month for a total of 12 weeks in paid leave to care for a newborn, another loved one or themselves within 10 years.
Women and their careers benefit when men are allowed – and encouraged – by their employers to do more caregiving.
East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to participate in the labour market full-time, whereas West Germany propagated a more tradition male breadwinner model.
The student loans system is just another source of financial gender inequality.
Single mothers need more of a break than they get under current laws.
Stay-at-home parents have a hard time reentering the workforce after spending time away.
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Senior Lecturer at York Business School, York St John University
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