Australia lags behind in new family fairness league table

Australia ranks in the bottom 5 in a groundbreaking new ‘Fairness in Families’ index showing countries’ ability to support equal parenting, launched by the UK's Fatherhood Institute. Australian families get a raw deal on paid parental leave, percentage of children living in lone parent households, and maximum full-time equivalent paid leave for fathers - the Fairness in Families Index reveals. The Index is the first of its kind, drawing on OECD data and validated by an international advisory panel. It ranks 21 countries on a set of 10 ‘family fairness’ indicators, including parental leave, the ratio of men’s to women’s time spent caring for children, the proportion of women in management roles, the percentage of men in the part-time workforce and the amount of time spent by men and women doing unpaid domestic work.