Valuing Parenthood: Options for Paid Maternity Leave : Interim Paper 2002
- ISBN-10
- 0642269807
- ISBN-13
- 9780642269805
- Category
- Maternity leave
- Pages
- 119
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Authors
- Australia. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Karen O'Connell, Gayle Robson
Description
"Women are an integral part of the Australian workforce. While significant progress has been made to remove systemic discrimination in the labour force, women continue to suffer disadvantage because of their responsibility for bearing and caring for children. The social revolutions of the last half century have seen tremendous change, but have not resulted in men taking equal responsibility for child rearing or domestic labour. In workforce terms, this is reflected in pay inequities: women still only earn 84 cents in the male dollar, when comparing average weekly ordinary time earnings. When all earnings are taken into account, the disparity is even greater. A national paid maternity leave scheme would go some way to addressing this disadvantage and compensate women for their loss of income resulting from family responsibilities. It also supports working women at a time of great vulnerability, the period surrounding childbirth. For this reason, paid maternity leave as a workforce entitlement is a starting assumption of this paper." --Foreword.
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