Mumbition with Carrie Kwan & Lucy Kippist 
About Emma Walsh
Emma Walsh is founder and CEO of Parents At Work, a Sydney-based advisory and education organisation that helps employers support working parents and carers through family policy advice, parental leave transition programs, research and training. Parents At Work joined forces with the consultancy Bendelta in 2026, and Walsh continues to lead it.
She started the organisation in 2007 as a return-to-work service for parents. She helped develop the National Work + Family Standards in 2021 and led the launch of the Family Friendly Workplaces certification, which benchmarks and certifies employers against them. She is a regular speaker and media commentator on parental leave, flexible work and gender equality.
On Mumbition with Carrie Kwan and Lucy Kippist, she discussed sharing the load at home and at work, and how far Australia's parental leave policy sits from the OECD average.
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Parents At Work is a Sydney-based advisory and education organisation that helps employers become family-friendly workplaces.
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