The body ordered French club Olympique Lyonnais to pay a player’s full salary after it paid a fraction while she was on maternity leave.
One graph in the Grattan Institute’s report on paid parental leave bluntly illustrates the unequal division of labour in Australian households - and the need for a government scheme to help change it.
Only 14 per cent of voters back calls to pay new parents their usual salary,while 24 per cent do not support the payments at all.
Labor’s first budget was not targeted at females,but,nevertheless,they are the main beneficiaries of several measures.
Your guide to who gained the most – and who missed out – in the federal budget.
It will take some years for Labor’s new childcare and paid parental leave policies to take effect,but they will make it easier for families to juggle paid work and care.
Changes to paid parental leave will encourage fathers to spend more time caring for their small children,but the design of the new policy will be crucial.
The federal government wants more fathers to take paid parental leave - but how to do it is a harder question to answer.
It’s time for Anthony Albanese to do something about a scheme that gives families with female breadwinners and stay-at-home dads nothing.
Getting more women into more work and sharing the load of child caring between mums and dads will bring economic benefits for the country.
The prime minister has announced an increase to the Commonwealth’s parental leave scheme and called on companies to follow suit.