New research finds economists and policymakers are too focussed on the unemployment rate and not on the quality of jobs young people are doing.
- ARC Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne
Early findings from an ongoing three-year research project into side hustles raise questions about their merits as a pathway to financial freedom.
Workers in Australia didn’t resign from their jobs in the wake of COVID, but they did burn out. A new survey found some solutions.
Addressing urgent and complex problems such as climate change involves research across the full spectrum of society – and that includes Australia’s young people.
The pandemic increased housework and childcare for women. It also exacerbated the work that keeps households and families running: the mental load.
While enrolments for men over the age of 25 increased, numbers fell for women in this age group. A likely reason for the difference is caring responsibilities, which increased during the pandemic.
Women have always done the lion’s share of the “invisible” caring work at home: the impact of coronavirus may force all of that to change.
Accurate data on Australians’ gender and sexual identity helps governments make good policy – and, importantly, ensures those communities are seen and recognised.
Australia’s parliament has become more family-friendly in the last decade, but women with families are still finding it tough. Other democracies can provide some inspiration.
New data show that while the gender gap on housework is narrowing, women still carry the load.
New research shows that parenting stress is lowest if grandparents do some of the care - as opposed to more formal arrangements.
Families are changing, and our political leaders should reflect on this diversity to ensure social policies reflect these differences, so that all families are well supported.
Poor economic performance and high levels of skilled migration are standing in the way of young Australians entering the labour market for the first time.
Releasing Australia’s fourth Intergenerational Report, Joe Hockey described it as the “social compact between generations”, which would help “identify where the future opportunities will be” and “unlock…
The problem with Australia’s population ageing is not that there are too many older people – it’s that there are not enough young people to support them. That presents many challenges to Australia’s continued…
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