How small businesses can support new and expectant parents in three simple ways
One of the biggest ways you can support expectant and new parents in your business is to build a culture that puts their wellbeing front and centre. Best of all? It doesn’t cost a cent!
My biggest mistake: Diony McPherson, co-founder of Paperform
One of the biggest lessons the Paperform co-founder has learnt is that she should embrace, rather than shy away from, difficult challenges.
How this campaign is using $876,000 bottles of hand cream to help working mothers
The hand cream campaign will urge companies to engage with their female employees on the ways motherhood and career progression can work together.
How do we help working mothers in lockdown?
A recent report by the Grattan Institute revealed Australian women have suffered a “triple whammy” of job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A silver lining of the pandemic is a “mainstreaming” of flexible work, says Dicker Data CFO Mary Stojcevski
Dicker Data's Mary Stojcevski is confident the widespread adoption of flexible work will increase women’s participation in tech.
“Woefully inadequate”: Budget 2020 has failed women entrepreneurs
In a budget that left Treasury with a $1 trillion deficit, the $240.4 million pledged to supporting women has been judged as dismal.
A $5 billion-a-year spend on childcare subsidies could result in an $11 billion-a-year increase in GDP, says Grattan Institute
Making childcare cheaper would recharge the economy and see the typical Australian mother earn $150,000 more to boot.
Juggling three roles: Why working parents with young children are especially vulnerable to surging mental distress
Trying to run a business while parenting kids and managing their remote learning is seriously stressful... if not impossible.
Why the closure of Victorian childcare centres will be especially tough on working mothers
The stage four restrictions announced by the Victorian government to contain the city’s COVID-19 outbreak will see childcare centres close.
Women are “maxing out and burning out” because of COVID-19, says Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
Amidst the crisis of the pandemic, women are disproportionately the ones working day and night to keep their families and households afloat.
What launching an e-commerce store taught this mum-of-two about ‘having it all’
One day, my life was similar to that of any ordinary mum, and the next day, I found myself juggling running a business with my family commitments.
Why we should all quit being ‘working mums’
A recent event got me thinking about whether there is a difference between being a ‘worker’ and a ‘mum’, and a 'working mum'.The answer is yes.
