Professor, The University of Melbourne
Leah Ruppanner is a professor of sociology at the University of Melbourne and Founder of LightenLab. She is the author of Drained: Reduce Your Mental Load to Do Less and Be More and Motherlands: How States Push Mothers Out of Employment. She completed a PhD in Sociology and has spent decades researching and publishing over 70 peer-reviewed articles on gender, work and family.
She is committed to understanding how women’s unpaid work – the time they spend in housework, childcare and the mental load – impacts their ability to engage in employment, sleep and overall well-being.