HBR has published their daily stat that 85% of fathers in Sweden take extensive paid parental leave. Just imagine if 85% of men in Australia took any parental leave! The Swedes get 16 months paid parental leave per child and apparently leave-takers aren’t penalized when applying for or being award promotions. And the significant investment […]
Tag Archive | "Family Motherhood and Home"
Paid Parental leave= lower divorce rates. And workplaces and cultures can adapt to parental leave so lets not believe the naysayers!
Posted on 30 August 2010.
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Are flexible working arrangements a trap for your employees’ careers? Why might they choose not to utilise them? What you can do about it:
Posted on 18 August 2010.
The survey: Does choosing flexible working arrangement prove you’re less serious and committed to your job, and damage your career prospects? This question was posed to 800 female solicitors in the UK, with surprising results. The Results: One third were dissatisfied with their access to flexible work arrangements. Half said they believed that using such […]
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Responding to my hate mail from a stay at home Mum
Posted on 16 August 2010.
Last weekend Rachel Browne featured an excellent summary in The Sun Herald of the many issues working families face in finding quality childcare – and why this issue is now hotting up as a major election decider. The report featured a number of startling statistics for parents and employers alike: 40% of families report some […]
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No, paid parental leave isn’t enough to get more women into leadership roles
Posted on 11 August 2010.
We have reached a milestone in Australia with the first national paid parental leave scheme coming in to force in the new year. By any measure, this is good news for mums in Australia who are the majority of carers for newborns. The coalition is promising a more attractive scheme if it makes it into […]
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Is Labor’s paid parental leave scheme “pathetic”? Why companies just offering the new government scheme will not be able to compete with those companies that step up and show they value their parent employees
Posted on 10 August 2010.
It’s a historic achievement. It is effective as of January 1st 2011. And Dr Shaman Stone MP, shadow minister for the status of women, early childhood, education and childcare has slammed Australia’s first paid parental leave scheme “pathetic” – Dr. Stone: “I don’t why Australian women should have to wait for something that in the […]
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Guest blog by Morningstar Managing Editor, Julia Newbould – We’re not changing attitudes just behaviour
Posted on 05 August 2010.
“Don’t set out to change attitudes, set out to change behaviour,” Catherine Fox told a group of Finsia lunch attendees in Sydney last week. Changing attitudes is a hard slog and could take generations but changing behaviour is something manageable and is still possible to achieve in my working life. There were a lot of […]
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