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What it's like to be a 'fly in, fly out' mother
With more and more jobs demanding time away from home, it’s not only fathers who are flying in and out of the nest.
![Public debate about the difficulties and costs of managing work and family is still solely centred on women.](/web/20170528213552im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/7/f/e/3/image.related.landscape.300x200.gt7ewc.png/1481850618667.jpg)
We need to start talking about working dads
Public debate about the difficulties and costs of managing work and family is still solely centred on women, writes Jane Gilmore.
![Roslyn Campbell is a woman with a plan.](/web/20170528213552im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/k/k/h/e/image.related.landscape.300x200.gskk67.png/1478641906888.jpg)
Not your usual crowdfunding campaign
For the second time Roslyn Campbell is using alternative finance to advance her business.
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Fathers need to join the conversation on paid parental leave
I recently asked my father if he took time off work after I was born. "Nope", he replied without missing a beat. He went to work the night I was born and taught his corporation law class at a local university.
![Part-time and casual work can be a good solution for mums returning to the workforce.](/web/20170528213552im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/c/6/5/c/image.related.landscape.300x200.gsc60u.png/1477542295876.jpg)
Working mums and the 'gig' economy
The rise of peer-to-peer platforms such as Uber have given a new meaning to the term 'portfolio' worker.
![Social Services Minister Christian Porter with his son Lachlan and Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer with her ...](/web/20170528213552im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/k/d/d/g/image.related.landscape.300x200.gs8zeu.png/1477322810422.jpg)
Has anyone in the Coalition ever actually met a pregnant woman?
The Coalition's paid parental leave changes make it seem like the government is made up of men.
![Disagreements over who should take time of work to care for sick children are a cause of conflict for many.](/web/20170528213552im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/6/e/t/h/image.related.landscape.300x200.grb0ar.png/1473230808617.jpg)
Carer's leave a source of conflict for many couples
I'm very lucky that I work for myself so I'm able to work hours that I dictate and have the flexibility to do the school runs. But whose responsibility is it to stay home to be the carer when both parents work full time out of the home? Does it always fall to one of them, or should it be a case of sharing the sick leave?
![Beth with one of her two children.](/web/20170528213552im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/8/s/c/w/image.related.landscape.300x200.gr8rba.png/1473037400453.jpg)
The mum who became a plumber
One company refused to give her an apprenticeship because they believed she would be too much of a distraction to the males.
![Florist Sarah Edwards spends "precious" time with children, Abigail, 3, and William, five months, by running her ...](/web/20170528213552im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/r/o/s/h/image.related.landscape.300x200.goj5y5.png/1471816887619.jpg)
They work from home but these women mean business
'You trade the heels for your pyjamas and sit with a glass of wine'.
!["Tell a toddler exactly what to do and what not to do, and she balks."](/web/20170528213552im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/7/w/e/e/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqrghf.png/1487907586507.jpg)
The study that proves we are all basically giant toddlers in the workplace
When it comes to happiness in the workplace, it turns out that what we really want is to be treated a bit like a toddler – we need to know the boundaries, but we'd also like a little extra room to move.
![Kerensa Walsh, widow of young father Brenton Walsh.](/web/20170528213552im_/http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/r/p/7/m/image.related.landscape.300x200.gpr0ls.png/1467287576081.jpg)
'I miss Daddy': Widow urges inquest into Woolworths worker's suicide
To all appearances, 30-year-old Brenton Walsh was a doting new dad, soon the extent of his suffering became brutally apparent.
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