Sick days are where the rubber hits the road for equal parenting. Kids get sick, and they get sick a lot in the early stages Evidence guru Emily Oster says kids younger than school-age get an average of six to eight cold a year, which last an average of 14 days. (School-age kids have two […]
Introducing The Switcheroo
In Australia, anyone who’s spent at least a year with their employer is entitled to take 12 months of unpaid parental leave. That’s 12 months per parent. And yet caring for young children looks like a woman’s game. In the playgrounds, the playgroups, the cafes and libraries all I see is women. Only 1 in […]
Doing less child care
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to shrink the pie – how to reduce the overall burden of household labour. In some ways, spending fewer hours on housework and paid work are easy. Those blog posts will write themselves. But child care/ parenting? That’s fraught. In late 2018 NYT published an article […]