#17 Emma Dawson - Returning to work as a mother. Perception less reliable and home all the time.

Brave Feminine Leadership · Sep 4, 2021 · 45m

Emma Dawson is Executive Director of public policy think tank Per Capita. She has worked as a researcher at Monash University and the University of Melbourne; in policy and public affairs for SBS and Telstra; and as a senior policy adviser in the Rudd and Gillard Governments.

Many mothers and caregivers express feeling that they are perceived as less reliable upon returning to the workplace after becoming a parent. While (typically) the Father is seen as less likely to leave and more reliable.

Emma and I discuss this key life stage as just one of the events that highlight the structural…