Gender Affairs

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It is UnitedFuture policy to:

  • Rename and refocus the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to the Ministry of Gender Affairs, recognising that the specific needs of both need to be addressed.
  • Recognise that men and women are both perpetrators and victims and target family violence policy accordingly.
  • Advocate individual professions to promote refresher courses for people returning to the workforce;
  • Encourage individual professions to retain valued staff by adopting part-time work policies when necessary.
  • Promote better work-life balance for parents.
  • End gender discrimination, recognising that both women and men can face unwelcome discrimination.
  • Extend paid and unpaid parental leave to both parents.
  • Recognise the imperative for fathers to bond with their newborns by an extension of parental leave.
  • Support flexible working hours.
  • Change the law to a presumption of shared parenting in custody disputes as it is usually in the best interests of the child to continue his/her relationship with both parents.

Gender Affairs

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