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About Parenting Out Loud

Welcome to the Parenting Out Loud community, where we share stories of working dads who are loudly and proudly Parenting Out Loud! Founded and curated by Elliott Rae, Parenting Out Loud is when dads are LOUD and PROUD about their childcare responsibilities at work. This is important as 80% of the gender pay gap is attributed to the motherhood penalty. And active fatherhood means better outcomes for children and fathers themselves. Parenting Out Loud is a major cultural shift – it’s a significant move away from how fathers have done things for generations. On a daily basis, Parenting Out Loud looks like dads putting school pick-ups in their calendar, using their out of office to talk about their childcare responsibilities, being open and honest about their need to work from home to take care of their sick child, taking all the paternity leave available and requesting flexible working for childcare reasons. Supportive policies are great, they are essential. And we champion employers who offer enhanced or equal parental leave. However, policy has to be accompanied by culture change work to truly achieve the behaviour change and outcomes we aspire to. Currently, 1 in 3 working dads don’t feel comfortable talking to their employer about family commitments (Bright Horizons, 2023). And although many dads want to Parent Out Loud, we can't ask dads to do so when they exist in workplace cultures that do not support them doing so. The Parenting Out Loud culture change programme supports organisations to build a workplace culture where dads can parent loudly. The programme was launched with a billboard campaign across the London Underground in April. The aim was to reach dads on their way to work. For more information on the programme, and how your employer can get involved, please visit www.parentingoutloud.com.

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