This post explores gender and public policy and asks, “Does being an advocate for women and mothers make you anti-men?”. I received positive feedback about the audio version of last month’s post, so I have provided it again (still unedited). I grew up surrounded...
In this post, I reflect on the role of unpaid care in my childhood. How could we better value and recognise the role of unpaid care, most often undertaken by women, in our public policy? One of the quick wins available to the government is to pay superannuation on the...