Motherhood Penalty/Discrimination

Landmark UN report highlights violence against mothers

04.07.26

UN Geneva – At its 62nd session, the Human Rights Council published the first UN report dedicated exclusively to mothers as right holders. Presented by Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on vio [...]

Families as active rights holders:
Quality Family Support in Spain and Europe

15.06.26

On 11 June 2026, Madrid hosted a major national conference dedicated to strengthening quality family support for positive parenting in Spain. [...]

Equal Pay Cannot Wait: Why Every EU Member State Must Implement the Pay Transparency Directive Now

12.06.26

Across Europe, millions of women continue to earn less than men for work of equal value. Behind these statistics are real people — mothers, unpaid carers, and working women who too often face financ [...]

The Motherhood Penalty: The Equality Challenge We Must Address – MMM @ ILC114

11.06.26

At the [...]

A new chapter in the Child Guarantee
When we invest in parents, we invest in every child they raise

20.05.26

The European Commission has published a new Communication on Breaking the cycle of child poverty: Strengthening the European Child Guarantee — alongside its first ever EU Anti-Poverty Strategy. Toge [...]

Parental Leave: A Global Imperative for Gender Equity and Economic Prosperity

25.03.26

UN New York – At the event MMM organised on the margins of the 70th UN Commission on the Status of Women, experts and policymakers converged to argue that parental leave is far more than a workplace [...]

Recognising Care
The Relevance of Parenting Skills in the EU Skill Portability Initiative

16.03.26

Make Mothers Matter (MMM) responded to the Public Consultation on the European Commission’s upcoming Skill Portability Initiative. We submitted a paper outlining our views and provided feedback on t [...]

Motherhood at Work in the EU
From Biological Protection to Structural Equality

10.03.26

Make Mothers Matter was invited by ETUI to its event: “Gender matters at work: Making the invisible visible” to discuss the issue of motherhood at work in the European Union. […] [...]

Justice must not be blind to unpaid care

08.03.26

UN New York – MMM's written statement to the 70th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) argues that access to justice for women and girls remains fundamentally incomplete because legal system [...]

Motherhood a powerful form of informal learning – Not a gap in the CV

10.02.26

UN New York – On 5 February, we hosted a virtual side-event during the 64th session of the UN Commission for Social Development titled Unlocking the Power of Care: Skills, Equity, and Social Transfo [...]

Motherhood Penalty/Discrimination

Landmark UN report highlights violence against mothers

Families as active rights holders:
Quality Family Support in Spain and Europe

Equal Pay Cannot Wait: Why Every EU Member State Must Implement the Pay Transparency Directive Now

The Motherhood Penalty: The Equality Challenge We Must Address – MMM @ ILC114

A new chapter in the Child Guarantee
When we invest in parents, we invest in every child they raise

Parental Leave: A Global Imperative for Gender Equity and Economic Prosperity

Recognising Care
The Relevance of Parenting Skills in the EU Skill Portability Initiative

Motherhood at Work in the EU
From Biological Protection to Structural Equality

Justice must not be blind to unpaid care

Motherhood a powerful form of informal learning – Not a gap in the CV

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