Men deserve part-time opportunities: Broderick

(Tuesday 22 July 2008)

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick says men should be afforded increased flexibility in their jobs so they can spend more time with their partners and children.

On a recently completed “national listening tour”, Ms Broderick found that men, particularly fathers of young children, are working much harder than they wish to because of the pressure to be a breadwinner. She believes more workplaces should adopt part-time roles.

“What we need is more senior part-time roles filled by men and women,” she told Melbourne’s The Age. “Flexibility is absolutely part of the modern workplace, and it’s about men and women, not just women with young children.

“…Men have said to me, ‘My female colleague can work three days a week, but if I ask for that, there’s a culture that says he’s obviously not committed to his workplace’.”

Ms Broderick will release her full report on the listening tour’s outcomes today.

(read the full story at http://www.theage.com.au/national/give-men-a-go-says-sex-commissioner-20080721-3is9.html)

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