UK. 8th March, 2024 - Better Daddies has welcomed the recommendations of the Treasury Select Committee on the importance of changing culture and firms equalising parental leave entitlement for mothers and fathers. Better Daddies also welcomes the committee’s recommendation that there should be more transparency around maternity and parental leave policies.
Better Daddies is a campaign for more support and cultural change to support fathers take on more caring and household responsibilities.
The Treasury Select Committee today published its report on sexism in the City. Better Daddies submitted evidence to the Treasury Select Committee which was referenced in the report (see paragraphs 57 and 59). Our evidence can be read here.
At paragraph 76 of the report, the Treasury Select Committee said:
Better Daddies is a campaign for more support and cultural change to support fathers take on more caring and household responsibilities.
The Treasury Select Committee today published its report on sexism in the City. Better Daddies submitted evidence to the Treasury Select Committee which was referenced in the report (see paragraphs 57 and 59). Our evidence can be read here.
At paragraph 76 of the report, the Treasury Select Committee said:
“We recommend that the Government and regulators encourage all firms to consider equalising their offer of parental leave for men and women, and to actively encourage more men to take it up. We also recommend that the Government and regulators encourage firms to be transparent about their maternity and parental leave policies, including when advertising roles, by publishing them on their company websites.”
Omar Salem, founder of Better Daddies, said:
“A key aspect of tackling sexism against women in the workplace is shifting the culture around the the role of fathers. Mothers, including those working in financial services, disproportionately carry out childcare. If childcare and parental leave were shared more equally between parents, this would provide more scope for men and women to work more equal hours. This could help reduce the “motherhood penalty”, the systematic disadvantages that mothers face in the workplace.”
Key public policy measures that Better Daddies would like to see the Government support include:
- Better parental leave for fathers and more support for fathers to take it up
- More support for fathers to work-part time and flexibly
- Better childcare provision
- Making parenthood a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010
- Cultural change so that things like parental leave and flexible working become seen as more normal for men to do
More details of Better Daddies proposals are available in our written evidence to the Treasury Select Committee here.
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