By Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager, Association of Women for Action and Research
Our society should rightly be pleased with its high ranking in the Save the Children report on motherhood ("Singapore best place in Asia to be a mum"; last Wednesday).
Singapore's low ra...
MS JESSICA Jaganathan's letter is timely ("Offer unpaid extension of maternity leave").
A society that recognises the value of family life should structure employment so as to enable everyone, regardless of gender, to fully enjoy active parenthood alongside participation in the workforce. This as...
by Callan Tham
Following AWARE’s article with three fathers who shared their views on paternity leave in Singapore – “What fathers say on Father’s Day”, published in The Online Citizen on 16 June 2013 – Callan Tham, another father, wrote to AWARE to add his opinion about the current p...
by Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Chan Kin Kok with Vivienne Wee and Ranjana Raghunathan
To mark Father’s Day, AWARE invited three fathers to give their views of the newly introduced paternity leave and conversion of one week of maternity leave to shared parental leave. Th...
When I became a mother five years ago, I experienced acutely what I had known as a sociologist — structural conditions matter.
In the first week after our baby was born, my husband and I were equally pathetic in our cluelessness; the learning curve was steep and we tried and failed together. We...
By Wong Pei Chi
In commemorating this 101st anniversary of International Women’s Day, let us remind ourselves that this Day came about historically to mark the expansion of women’s choices and rights, including the right to protection against discrimination.
The first International Women’s D...
Access to childcare subsidies, motherhood benefits and housing benefits should be granted to all parents, without discriminating against unwed parents or stay-at-home parents. To build a truly inclusive society, our policies must evolve to embrace different types of families.
AWARE applauds the S...
It is not short-term materialism that discourages Singaporeans from having children, but realistic evaluations of how much they need to bear in terms of costs for care for elderly parents, the healthcare needs of their families, and their own retirement needs in an expensive city.
Make gender equal...
This letter was written in response to the news that the National Trades Union Congress is calling for fathers to get two weeks’ paid paternity leave.
AWARE agrees with the National Trades Union Congress’ (NTUC) call for fathers to get two weeks’ paid paternity leave.
In AWARE’s 2011 ...
