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Prospects for Women Under Labor and Coalition Industrial Relations Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Barbara Pocock
Barbara Pocock*
Affiliation:
Centre for Labor Studies, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005
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Abstract

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Women continue to lag some distance behind men in the Australian labour market - in relation to pay differentials, recognition of their skills, award coverage and their concentration in part-time and casual work. This article examines the implications of Labor and Coalition industrial relations policies in relation to women with a focus on three issues; the level of decentralisaton of the system; the strength of the safety net underpinning enterprise industrial relations; and the role of unions. The article concludes that while women are further disadvantaged by some aspects of Labor’s current enterprise bargaining processes, they would be much more damaged by the coalition’s proposals.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , December 1995 , pp. 234 - 251
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1995

Footnotes

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This paper was presented at a conference organised by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Teaching (ACCIRT) in Sydney on 7th December. The author would like to thank Haydon Manning and Pat Wright for their suggestions on an earlier draft.

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