- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Contributor biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- One Towards a new progressive policy agenda
- Two Neoliberalism, the culture wars and public policy
- Three Macroeconomic policy after the Global Financial Crisis
- Four Putting together work and care in Australia: time for a new settlement?
- Five Welfare reform
- Six ‘Choice’ and ‘fairness’: the hollow core in industrial relations policy
- Seven Indigenous policy: Canberra consensus on a neoliberal project of improvement
- Eight Culture and diversity
- Nine The business of care: Australia’s experiment with the marketisation of childcare
- Ten Mixed messages in the new politics of education
- Eleven The accidental logic of health policy in Australia
- Twelve Loose moorings: debate and directions in Australian housing policy
- Thirteen Population policy
- Fourteen Australian cities: in pursuit of a national urban policy
- Fifteen Natural resource management: steering not rowing against the current in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Sixteen International perspectives: low carbon urban Australia in a time of transition
- Seventeen Politics and government
- Eighteen Federalism and intergovernmental relations
- Nineteen Citizen engagement in Australian policy making
- Twenty On escaping neoliberalism: concluding reflections
- Index
Putting together work and care in Australia: time for a new settlement?
Putting together work and care in Australia: time for a new settlement?
- Chapter:
- (p.63) Four Putting together work and care in Australia: time for a new settlement?
- Source:
- Australian public policy
- Author(s):
Barbara Pocock
Janine Chapman
Natalie Skinner
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter reviews and critiques the major public policy challenges remain in the domain of work and family policy as we respond to changing workforce and population demographics. Using the framework of work/care regimes, this chapter applies a gender lens to examine employment participation, work-life interaction, work hours and parental leave in contemporary Australian policy, practice and experience. Priorities for systemic and structural reform are identified, with a focus on strategies to enable gender equity in workforce participation, whilst supporting social and family relations so that work and care can easily be combined.
Keywords: work, care, gender, work-life interaction, parental leave, employment participation, policy reform
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- Title Pages
- List of figures and tables
- Contributor biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- One Towards a new progressive policy agenda
- Two Neoliberalism, the culture wars and public policy
- Three Macroeconomic policy after the Global Financial Crisis
- Four Putting together work and care in Australia: time for a new settlement?
- Five Welfare reform
- Six ‘Choice’ and ‘fairness’: the hollow core in industrial relations policy
- Seven Indigenous policy: Canberra consensus on a neoliberal project of improvement
- Eight Culture and diversity
- Nine The business of care: Australia’s experiment with the marketisation of childcare
- Ten Mixed messages in the new politics of education
- Eleven The accidental logic of health policy in Australia
- Twelve Loose moorings: debate and directions in Australian housing policy
- Thirteen Population policy
- Fourteen Australian cities: in pursuit of a national urban policy
- Fifteen Natural resource management: steering not rowing against the current in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Sixteen International perspectives: low carbon urban Australia in a time of transition
- Seventeen Politics and government
- Eighteen Federalism and intergovernmental relations
- Nineteen Citizen engagement in Australian policy making
- Twenty On escaping neoliberalism: concluding reflections
- Index
