Louise urged women to “fight against” the system that has been “set up” for new mums as she shared how she was affected by the inequality in parental roles in her own relationship. Louise McSharry pictured at the the RTÉ campus in 2020. Photo: Frank McGrath Former RTÉ 2fm star Louise McSharry has said that men should have to take the same amount of parental leave as women.
The broadcaster, who is mum to sons Sam and Ted, opened up about parenthood to influencer Keelin Moncrieff on the first episode of her new podcast Mother . Louise spoke about how parental leave in Ireland is an issue for couples and explained how mothers are forced to take on extra responsibilities to make up for their partner’s lack of time off work. “I personally think that as a country we should be taking a completely different approach to parental leave,” she tells Keelin in the opening episode.
“I think that the only way we’re actually going to have equalities in our houses — and also at work — is if men also take parental leave — the same amount that women take — because what happens is, in my opinion, you’re on maternity leave, so, you obviously are organising the doctor’s appointments or you’re buying the nappies, and you’re doing the formula. “If that’s what you’re doing, you’re doing all those tasks because you’re not working, like essentially, your full-time job at that time is to parent. So, you do it all.
Then you go back to work and then you’re.
