What if Australia was more progressive around our policies around parental leave and early childcare? How would that affect families, and the whole country, on a wider scale? In this episode, I speak with  Georgie Dent, founder of The Parenthood. She dives into all of the benefits and statistical evidence around the earlier years and how detrimental it is to change our current system.

Georgie Dent is a prominent and passionate advocate for women’s empowerment, families and children. She is the executive director of The Parenthood, a not-for-profit parent advocacy group representing over 77,000 parents, carers and supporters. When she’s not parenting or sleeping she is campaigning for free quality early childhood education and care and adequate paid parental leave.

The former lawyer is a regular guest on ABC's The Drum, The Today Show and The Project and has made appearances on Q&A, Lateline, Weekend Sunrise, Studio 10, and Sky News. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life, Marie Claire, The New Daily and Harpers Bazaar. She has researched and published work on subjects from parental leave equality, violence against women, childcare, sexism, pay equity and women in leadership.

Georgie is the best-selling author of Breaking Badly, a memoir that was published by Affirm Press in May 2019. Annabel Crabb described it as ‘funny, shocking, beautifully written … a fascinating account of one woman’s hand-to-hand combat with her own mind’.

She lives in Sydney with her husband and their three daughters.

You can find her at:
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Buy Georgie's book 'Breaking Badly' here.

Read the Smart Company article I referenced Sexual discrimination at work needs to end, and small businesses can lead the way here.

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