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Working and caring
— women's well-being and financial security | | Author(s) | Jane Mears, Elizabeth Watson |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Research Centre - SPRC, University of New South Wales |
| Journal title | SPRC Reports and Proceedings, no 141, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 159-170 |
| Keywords | Women as carers ; Employment ; Well being ; Australia. |
| Annotation | This paper was given at the 1999 National Social Policy Conference held in Sydney, and takes up the conference themes of justice and responsibility, by examining the impact on women of a range of policies concerning women as carers, workers and older citizens. The authors draw, first, on their own research examining the experience of women who are both caring for older relatives and also in paid employment. A second piece of research - for an OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) study - analyses the likely impact of an array of care benefits on women's relationship to paid employment. The authors of this paper consider the assumptions underpinning relevant policies and their gendered nature, then the issue of costs and disincentives to women, and lastly the changes needed in both community service provision and in the work place. They conclude that there is a need for the kind of recognition of unpaid caring work which is acknowledged as productive work. Not only does such work save governments money, but it also helps create the sort of community from which all benefit. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000131205 B |
| Classmark | P6:SH: WJ: D:F:5HH: 7YA |
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