Women are the Business

Paid Parental Leave - Who cares?


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Did you know that Australia was the second last developed country to implement a National Paid Parental Leave (PPL) Policy? In the first episode of Women are the Business, we speak with Jenny Macklin, the longest serving woman in the Australian House of Representatives. She drove the fight for PPL in Australia, finally getting it across the line in 2011. We also hear from Professor Guyonne Kalb, who measured the policy's impact on Australian families. We'll explore how this one piece of policy impacts women's careers - and men's - and why more change might be needed.

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Women are the BusinessBy Faculty of Business and Economics