Australia could benefit from revisiting a plan to match maternity leave pay rates with prior earnings as occurs in Switzerland.
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All the evidence points to paid partner’s leave having many benefits for children and families – but Labour’s promise falls short on time and money.
Neuroscientists know that pregnant mothers’ brains change in ways that appear to help with caring for a baby. Now researchers have identified changes in new fathers’ brains, too.
States taking the strictest stands against abortion tend to have among the worst statistics in the nation on child and family well-being.
Stable child care can protect kids in the face of major life stressors — so should subsidy policies.
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.
Mothers with young children are consistently identified as having lower levels of physical activity and leisure opportunities, which place their physical and mental health at risk.
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.
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.
Women and their careers benefit when men are allowed – and encouraged – by their employers to do more caregiving.
Parents and managers can work together to plan ahead, avoid returnees feeling excluded and maintain a good work-life balance.
Single mothers need more of a break than they get under current laws.
Whatever the eventual impact on women’s candidacies post-pandemic, COVID-19 has the potential to shock the system, upending or reinforcing existing gender imbalances in political power.
Stay-at-home parents have a hard time reentering the workforce after spending time away.
Forty percent of US babies are born to unmarried parents. But the new paid leave policy for most federal workers disadvantages single parents.
Labour and the Liberal Democrats go further than the current system but would still leave the UK lagging behind many of its international peers.
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.
Thanks to a provincial insurance plan, Québec fathers are spending more time with their newborns, bringing about changes in the gender division of labour within the family.
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Associate Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sociology & Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Lecturer in Mercantile Law, University of the Free State
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Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs; Professor of Law and Ira C. Batman Faculty Fellow, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in Labour Law, North-West University
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Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Politics and Policy, Deakin University
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Professor of Business Statistics, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne
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Professeure à l'Université TELUQ, Université du Québec, directrice de l'ARUC sur la gestion des âges et des temps sociaux et de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l'économie du savoir, Université TÉLUQ
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Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Family History, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
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Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
