S3E12: All mothers work. In conversation with Alannah Batho
In today’s episode we sit down with the articulate and aspirant Alannah Batho from the Parents Work Collective. Alannah is a parent to two girls, an employment lawyer and alongside Virginia Tapscott has founded the not-for-profit advocacy organization Parents Work Collective. You may have seen their t-shirts out in the wild with the bold red words reading “ALL MOTHERS WORK”.
Parents Work Collective are working to change the narrative and policies around the value of unpaid care work aka parenting. Alannah is passionate about more value being ascribed to, and more support provided for, the joyful, challenging, meaningful work that is caring for one’s own children. Throughout our chat we discuss the culture in Australia that has devalued care-work, how feminism left mothers behind, the impacts of increasing paid support for both parents and how this is in fact an investment in the future. Because yes parenthood is a choice, but it is essential for the continuing of the human species and the health of the economy as well. So why in this country are we being penalized for becoming parents? Listen in and see how we can make simple and effective changes.
Sign up to the Parents Work Collective mailing list at the bottom of the page here to join their cause.
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Show notes:
You can follow Parents Work Collective on Instagram here. Their website is www.parentsworkcollective.org.au
Men at Work, an essay by Annabel Crabb
Gabor Mate - The Myth of Normal
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Love, Mel and Cel