The end of equality : work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia /

Summers, Anne, 1945-

The end of equality : work, babies and women's choices in 21st century Australia / The end of equality : work, babies and women's choices in twenty-first century Australia Anne Summers. - Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, c2003. - viii, 327 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes Index.

Bibliography: p. 297-311.

Part One. How women see it. 1. Hard choices; 2. The baby bust; 3. What about me!; 4. Payback; 5. A sex war -- Part Two. What society has done. 6. Cold shoulder from Canberra; 7. The end of equality; 8. It's lonely at the top; 9. Political eunuchs; 10. The breeding creed -- Part Three. What you can do. 11. Restoring equality; 12. Acting up.

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Looks at the reasons behind the dramatic decline in the terms and conditions of women's participation in Australian society since the early 1990s.

1740512871 (pbk.) :


Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Australia.
Women--Australia.
Women in Australia.
Women - Australia - Social conditions.
Women - Australia.
Women - Australia - Economic conditions.
Women - Government policy - Australia.
Motherhood--Australia.
Work and family--Australia.
Motherhood.
Women--Employment.
Women--Government policy.
Work and family.
Women--Employment--Australia.
Women--Social conditions.--Australia
Women--Economic conditions.--Australia
Women--Government policy--Australia.


Australia.
Australia.

Employment participation Employment participation rates Women Government policy Social conditions Economic conditions Work and family Sex discrimination Women. Government policy. Social conditions. Economic conditions. Employment participation rates. Work and family. Sex discrimination. Women's studies (Australia ) Policy making Social ethics & debates

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