Virginia Tapscott (Mum, Journalist, Co-Founder of Parents Work Collective)
@bush_bambinis

How times have changed. Over decades, a lot of our grandmothers or mothers, have led the charge in pushing for change, to support their daughters dreams to be equal in the workplace. Whilst we have come a long way, there now seems to be confusion between roles, and judgement of how you choose to parent, a ripple effect of our fight for equality in the workplace.

Virginia Tapscott has been a leader and advocate that there should be the option of choice to care for your child from home, as much as the option to return to work in our society. As a talented journalist herself, she has written impassioned articles for The Australian, and spoken to the media, including what could be called a head-to-head with Mia Freedman on Mamamia No Filter Podcast.

Since then, Virginia has founded ‘Parents Work Collective’, an Organisation which is made up of a team of parents and carers from varied caregiving and professional backgrounds, who advocate through media engagement and political submissions to relevant inquiries or community consultation and raise awareness of the devaluation of care occurring at social, cultural, and political levels.

But underneath the strength and powerful voice, Virginia is also a woman, and a mum who still must manage life, her own well-being, and the full-time care for her children. So we take the opportunity to understand all things policy and personal, with the ever so brave, Virginia Tapscott.