Have you noticed that support specifically for dads is a little light-on?
Too often, their path into parenthood is considered relative to that of motherhood.
Let’s put aside the wild and wonderful mother/birthing parent journey for a moment and focus in on what’s happening for a new dad.
He’s about to start a new role he has never done before, turning up as the ultimate apprentice but with significant responsibility and seniority. Normal feelings of apprehension arise - is he up to the challenge? Will he get things wrong? What does he need to know? How can he prepare? How is his life going to change? In career counselling and through career development theory more broadly, we explore life stages and transitions a lot and fatherhood is a monumental life transition for men. Becoming a dad is a big deal.
The modern definition of a career is so much broader than the things we get paid to do. It covers a whole range of paid and unpaid roles we occupy throughout life - including the role of Dad.
The fathers we meet through Workpants who are going on this journey are so eager to be great teammates, to support their partners and their children to thrive. They are keen for advice on the parenthood career, even if at times they are unsure how or who to ask.
Recent data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows that workplaces are increasingly offering gender-neutral parental leave, but men make up only 14% of all parental leave taken.
That's why the Workpants team have created the New Dads Career Guide.
It's a free guide full of information and tools you can share with the expecting dads in your organisation and includes tips and advice from more than a dozen wonderful dads eager to share what they know. Looking around at roughly 300,000 babies born each year in Australia - and remembering the 100,000 or more that are lost early - that’s a lot of Dads to support.
jump in and check it out here.
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