{"id":7644,"date":"2020-08-10T02:23:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T02:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2020-08-10T02:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T02:23:44","slug":"grattan-report-shows-early-learning-investment-key-to-gender-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/10\/grattan-report-shows-early-learning-investment-key-to-gender-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Grattan Report Shows Early Learning Investment Key To Gender Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have welcomed a new report from the Grattan Institute today,\u00a0<em>Cheaper childcare: A practical plan to boost female workforce participation<\/em>, which illustrates that government investment to lower the cost of early learning will improve gender equity and opportunities for women\u2019s financial independence.<br \/>\nSenator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens spokesperson on Education, said:<br \/>\n\u201cExpensive childcare has held Australian women back for far too long. The reality is that child-rearing in Australia is highly gendered, and it\u2019s women who lose independence and income when decisions have to be made about who will stay home.<br \/>\n\u201cGovernment should invest in early learning and make it fee-free for all. This will benefit women, and it will benefit the whole community.<br \/>\n\u201cEarly learning and care should be recognised as a critical part of a child\u2019s development, and funded as such by the government.<br \/>\n\u201cIt should be fee-free so every family can access it without barriers. It is an essential service,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nSenator Larissa Waters, Greens Senate Leader and spokesperson on Women, said:<br \/>\n\u201cThis report confirms what women have been saying for years: childcare in Australia is unaffordable and inaccessible, and mothers, more often than not, are paying the price.<br \/>\n\u201cIt also highlights that fairer parental leave and workplace flexibility for both parents are needed to give families more choices when juggling caring responsibilities.<br \/>\n\u201cBut instead of looking at these options, the Liberal government is trying to force women back into the kitchen.<br \/>\n\u201cWomen are bearing the worst economic impacts from Covid, losing more jobs or hours of work than men, and performing a much higher care load.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd our Treasurer&#8217;s response is to tell the women of Australia to have more babies to boost the economy.<br \/>\n\u201cYou want a real economic stimulus? Help women return to work by making childcare permanently free and making it easier for parents to share care.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have welcomed a new report from the Grattan Institute today,\u00a0Cheaper childcare: A practical plan to boost female workforce participation, which illustrates that government investment to lower the cost of early learning will improve gender equity and opportunities for women\u2019s financial independence. Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens spokesperson on Education, said: \u201cExpensive childcare has held &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/10\/grattan-report-shows-early-learning-investment-key-to-gender-equity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grattan Report Shows Early Learning Investment Key To Gender Equity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}