Summary: Work/ life balance, especially for people raising a family, is one of the eternal questions when it comes to reforming the workplace and addressing the competing pressures of working and raising children. How do we value the time people, mainly women, carry out as unpaid caring work? How do men fit into this equation? In this instalment of Pod Rights, Race and Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, talks Dr Lyn Craig, an ARC QEII Fellow from the Social Policy research Centre at the University of New South Wales, about her research entitled, Work and Family Time: Australia in Comparative Perspective. It compares the time demands of parenthood and the gender division of care in the United States, Australia, Italy, France and Denmark, and includes an overview policies in those countries that are designed to promote better division of unpaid care.
