Gender Affairs

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 genders 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 care in custody disputes as it is usually in the best interests of the child to continue his/her relationship with both parents.