MsBree Allingham-Maclaren

Hi, I’m Bree. I’m a feminist settler scholar. I want to get people talking about gender inequality in housework and parenting and how it affects women and families.

I believe people of all genders are equally capable of nurturing children, preparing a meal, doing laundry, and cleaning a toilet. I want to help create a world where women (and people of all genders) have greater choice about how they lead their lives, greater satisfaction in their relationships and the roles they play in their families and communities.

My approach to research has been shaped by growing up in country Victoria on the lands of the Wadawurrung people in the 1980s and 90s, my cultural background (Scottish, Irish and English), and working in feminist organisations with family violence victim-survivors over the last 15 years - among many other things. Now living in Naarm (Melbourne) on the lands of the Wurundjeri people, I am engaged in the perpetual process of learning, including about the value and limitations of what I know.