Last month, the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward, released her 277 page report, A time to value, in which she proposed a government-funded 14 week paid maternity leave scheme, for women in the paid workforce.The problem with this is: what happens after 14 weeks?The unspoken assumption is that the mother simply returns to the full-time workforce, and the baby is, apparently, to be put into full-time childcare from the age of 14 weeks – usually at taxpayers’ expense.This highlights a ba…
