To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more broad and all-encompassing than traditional definitions. We need a new approach to capturing, and appreciating, their work, paid and unpaid.
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Receiving calls from the boss after hours stresses workers and can put pressure on relationships. But this is set to change with an amendment to the Fair Work Act.
COVID was a ‘gendered pandemic’, with women carrying very different burdens to men. A three-year New Zealand research project aimed to overcome the urge to forget, and provide lessons for the future.
With a surge in people seeking help amid a cost-of-living crisis, volunteer groups urgently need to rebuild their numbers to meet the demand for their services.
We must redress the challenges of unpaid domestic work and the mental load on women’s physical, mental and economic health and well-being.
Has COVID rendered concepts such as “work-life conflict” or “work-life balance” redundant?
Maybe we need new ways to describe and navigate the new pandemic reality.
Finding a way to increase the participation of men and fathers in unpaid care work would have an important influence on a more equal distribution between women and men.
A new study has found US mums have experienced a marked drop in their works hours during the pandemic. But this is not the case for dads.
Working at home has been far from costless, but many of the costs aren’t counted in the GDP.
High-end restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal has allegedly underpaid staff by $4 million. Our research finds wage theft is accepted as the industry norm.
Offering unpaid positions for what should be a paid job is against the law in Australia. What should graduates do then if they’re looking to get a foot in the employment door?
Legal or not, unpaid internships are likely to continue as long as people face barriers breaking into the workforce and some employers see the opportunity for free labour.
The methods used to measure gross domestic product are being criticised for excluding the unpaid work done by women.
Automation could transform our working world. Here’s what we can do to ensure it is a more gender equal one.
The court narrowly ruled that employees who sign arbitration agreements can’t bring class action suits over unpaid wages.
While disability carers are employed to work part-time hours, they often have long work days with short periods of work interspersed with non-work periods.
Today’s release of data from the 2016 Census allows us to identify some of Australians’ more common characteristics, how they vary across states and territories, and how they are changing over time.
The latest Census shows Australians spend between five and 14 hours a week on unpaid domestic work, but it’s women who suffer the most from this.
A new study quantifies unpaid work experience in Australia and shows how some young people miss out.
It is time to have an open and honest discussion about who is – and isn’t – being trained to secure the future of our world’s health at the World Health Organization headquarters.
Principales colaboradores
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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John Bray Professor of Law, University of Adelaide
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Former Senior Lecturer, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Comparative Employment Systems, University of Manchester
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Director of Her Story, project coordinator at The Equality Institute, lead on U Right Sis? project, Indigenous Knowledge
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Policy Director, Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute and Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Research fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Health Policy and Systems Researcher, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
