Family Matters article Jun 1998
Changing Family Responsibilities
This paper illustrates the flow of social exchanges between the family and the market and the family and the state, particularly in relation to some aspects of domestic labour.
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Family Matters article Jun 1998
This paper illustrates the flow of social exchanges between the family and the market and the family and the state, particularly in relation to some aspects of domestic labour.
Family Matters article Sep 1997
Family Matters article Sep 1997
Initial findings from an Institute study highlight the ways that parents' workforce participation is influenced by the values and preferences they hold for combining work and family life.
Family Matters article Jun 1997
This paper examines and compares men's and women's levels of satisfaction with the domestic division of labour, and the way in which levels of satisfaction vary in relation to a number of factors such as labour force attachment of husbands and wives, life cycle stage, and attitudes to gender roles and social class..
Family Matters article Apr 1997
Family Matters article Jun 1996
This paper suggests that it is still not easy, in 1995, for the more than a quarter of Australia's workforce to gain the additional flexibility which may be required to carry out the dual tasks of care and paid work
Research report Dec 1995
Is it possible to integrate the roles of work and family, or will this remain a vision more than the reality?
Family Matters article Jun 1995
Family Matters article Apr 1994
Having discussed the importance of the family to the individual's development and the difficulties associated with formulating family policy, the author presents summaries of the key articles in this issue of 'Family Matters'.
Family Matters article Apr 1994
This paper examines what we now know about the place of unpaid household work in the economy, uses internationally comparable survey data to estimate the relative magnitudes of the millions of hours of paid, unpaid and total work, puts a dollar value on Gross Household Produce (the value added by unpaid household work), looks more closely at who provides care and nurture in households, and suggests some urgent issues for statistics and policy that we should begin to tackle in 1994.