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Work and families / editor Justin Healey.

Contributor(s): Healey, Justin.
Series: Issues in society ; v. 155.Publisher: Rozelle, N.S.W. : The Spinney Press, c2001Description: 44 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.ISBN: 1876811641.Subject(s): Women -- Employment -- Australia | Work and family -- AustraliaDDC classification: 306.85
Contents:
Ch. 1. Balancing work and family. Working families with children. Women with young children: participation in the paid workforce. Women bear the brunt of social change. Australian families and the labour force. Family-friendly workplaces. The reality versus the rhetoric of flexible work practices. Should the workplace be more family friendly? Parental leave. Rules go to work for mothers-to-be. Pregnancy fact sheet. Issues for working fathers. Work not an enemy of happy families. - Ch. 2. The child care debate. Child care. Child care arrangements. Child care aggression link rejected. Care for kids with greater quality time. Informal childcare harms development. Babysitter and gran get black marks in care study. All care ... Debate joined on children options. Quality care can't be bad for children. Mother of all debates misses the salient point. - Ch. 3. Women, work qnd fertility. Birthrate falls as career and motherhood clash. When juggling's too hard, women drop motherhood. Policy challenge in fertility decline. Family policies help all of us. A women's right to motherhood. Old family models are unfit for our times. Why women are right to think twice about kids. Why a woman's work is still never done. - Glossary. - Facts and figures. - Index. - Further resources.
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Ch. 1. Balancing work and family. Working families with children. Women with young children: participation in the paid workforce. Women bear the brunt of social change. Australian families and the labour force. Family-friendly workplaces. The reality versus the rhetoric of flexible work practices. Should the workplace be more family friendly? Parental leave. Rules go to work for mothers-to-be. Pregnancy fact sheet. Issues for working fathers. Work not an enemy of happy families. - Ch. 2. The child care debate. Child care. Child care arrangements. Child care aggression link rejected. Care for kids with greater quality time. Informal childcare harms development. Babysitter and gran get black marks in care study. All care ... Debate joined on children options. Quality care can't be bad for children. Mother of all debates misses the salient point. - Ch. 3. Women, work qnd fertility. Birthrate falls as career and motherhood clash. When juggling's too hard, women drop motherhood. Policy challenge in fertility decline. Family policies help all of us. A women's right to motherhood. Old family models are unfit for our times. Why women are right to think twice about kids. Why a woman's work is still never done. - Glossary. - Facts and figures. - Index. - Further resources.

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