To change norms on the role of men and women on parenting, Parliament should incentivise men to share parenting responsibility by providing paternity and parental leave.Ĭaring responsibilities do not end with the ned of maternity and paternity leave. This includes, ensuring that women MPs should be entitled to all the same rights to paid maternity leave as any other working women.
MUTOOLS MULAB 7 TORREN SERIES
Drawing on best practices from around the world, the UK Parliament should adopt a series of measures to foster a stronger work-life balance. Members of Parliament (MPs) should be able to be participative parents and fully participative Parliamentarians. Reconciling Participative Parenting with Political Office We should not expect women simply to conform to a male world. In mainstreaming gender, we need to change the ‘mainstream’ institutional structure which was modelled on a male dominated society. Our submission to the Women and Equalities Committee outlines concrete actions that Parliament can take to ensure that all people are treated equally in Parliament.Īs a starting point, gender sensitive Parliament this should not be regarded as a ‘woman’s problem’. As a workplace, it is imperative that Parliament be gender inclusive. Although Parliament is prorogued and as the legality of this decision is being challenged in the UK Supreme Court, it is important to remember that for many men and women Parliament is a workplace. In the lead up to proroguing Parliament there were accusations of Prime Minister making sexist comments and this follows a history of sexist and demeaning remarks towards women.
0 kommentar(er)
