Women and paid sick days: crucial for family well-being.
Balancing work with personal and family health-care concerns is a major stressor for many working women. Women continue to be overrepresented in part-time and low-wage positions, those least likely to offer employer benefits such as paid sick days. Nevertheless, working women remain our families' primary caregivers. For too many...

'Only teachers, nurses and wives': women on Methodist missions in Arnhem Land.
'I don't think we had many women missionaries in North Australia. Only teachers and nurses.' (1) 'On Elcho Island, to tease us, our husbands used to say to us, 'Oh, but you are only a wife!" (2) 'Only' was a pejorative term used to describe...

The economic status of women in Indiana: highlights differences by race & ethnicity: this fact sheet was produced with support from the Indiana commission for women.
Indiana reflects both the advances and limited progress achieved by women in the United States. Women in Indiana and the United States as a whole are seeing important changes in their lives and in their access to political, economic, and social rights. They by no means enjoy equality with...

Focus on women and work: editors' introduction.
In March 2006, Australia's national industrial relations laws were significantly rewritten. At the same time, welfare legislation was amended. There was considerable concern about these two sets of changes, individually and in combination, among women's groups and in the community sector more broadly, unions and academia. The...

Workplace bullying, women and WorkChoices.
[B]ullying behaviour involving grossly improper conduct, including racist and sexist vilification, is notoriously underreported even in the workplace and the undoubted fact that many victims seem unable or unwilling to take action at least for a considerable period of time shows that such responses are well within the range...

Maternity leave in the United States: paid parental leave is still not standard, even among the best U.S. employers.
Nearly one-quarter (24 percent) of the best employers for working mothers provide four or fewer weeks of paid maternity leave, and half (52 percent) provide six weeks or less, according to an Institute for Women's Policy Research analysis of data provided by Working Mother Media, Inc., publisher of Working...

2,800 Filipinos leave daily to work abroad.
Byline: RAYMUND F. ANTONIO Despite the alarming increase in welfare cases involving Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), about 2,800 migrant workers daily are leaving the country to seek employment in more than 197 labor-host countries. Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) chief Rosalinda Baldoz said the Filipino...

Pick one intelligent girl; employability, domesticity, and the gendering of Canada's welfare state, 1939-1947.
9780802094216 Pick one intelligent girl; employability, domesticity, and the gendering of Canada's welfare state, 1939-1947. Stephen, Jennifer A. U. of Toronto Press 2007 299 pages $29.95 Paperback HD6099 Women were a...

Uncovering the normative family of parental leave: Harvester, law and the household.
Introduction From the mid 1970s, Australian parliaments enacted legislation for the stated purpose of addressing discrimination in the paid labour force, including more recently in relation to the issues of pregnancy and childbirth. These initiatives have taken effect through antidiscrimination statutes such as the Sex Discrimination Act...

The interplay of Welfare-to-Work and Work Choices.
Introduction The main object of labour law has always been, and I venture to say will always be, a countervailing force to counteract the inequality of bargaining power which is inherent and must be inherent in the employment relationship. (1) A review of the changes...