Hi Anna,
As we celebrate International Women's Day 2022, I’m reflecting upon the fundamental efforts still needed to #BreaktheBias when it comes to bridging the caring divide.
The conflict between juggling work and family life has long been lamented as a key thorn in the side that has held back real gender equality progress.
For too long, the obvious tension points that exist between work and family life have been neglected by policy makers and the highly gendered systems and structures we’ve built around caregiving vs breadwinning continue to undermine our equality efforts, both at work and at home.
It’s not just women and children who are the poorer for it – everyone is. All of us have a life outside of work, with commitments to care for family and friends, and those commitments will (and do) collide over our lifetime. It is clearly in all our interests to reduce work and family conflict, but to do so, it is vital that we break the bias that caring is seen and treated as ‘women’s business’.
We need government and workplaces to recognise that caring is everyone’s business and do more to close the caring gap. Unequivocally, that means investing in family friendly policies that will deliver greater gender equality, health and wellbeing outcomes, not only for women and children, but for all... read more.
Best regards,
Emma Walsh
CEO, Parents At Work & Founder, Family Friendly Workplace
Read about the key focus areas for organisations to help #BreaktheBias for women and families.
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