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New analysis reveals just how much “invisible” caring and housework is worth to the economy.
A new study of heterosexual couples in Australia and Germany reveals the economic costs to women when their partners work long hours.
Dementia care costs are 5 times higher than the official figures suggest when you count the value of unpaid care.
The start of the new year could be the best time to decide if your employer is doing enough to create a healthy and positive work environment.
New laws will soon give employees a legal right to ignore work-related communication outside their standard working hours.
Overworking junior doctors has been normalised for decades. And we all suffer.
To First Nations women, ‘care’ is more broad and all-encompassing than traditional definitions. We need a new approach to capturing, and appreciating, their work, paid and unpaid.
Receiving calls from the boss after hours stresses workers and can put pressure on relationships. But this is set to change with an amendment to the Fair Work Act.
COVID was a ‘gendered pandemic’, with women carrying very different burdens to men. A three-year New Zealand research project aimed to overcome the urge to forget, and provide lessons for the future.
With a surge in people seeking help amid a cost-of-living crisis, volunteer groups urgently need to rebuild their numbers to meet the demand for their services.
We must redress the challenges of unpaid domestic work and the mental load on women’s physical, mental and economic health and well-being.
Has COVID rendered concepts such as “work-life conflict” or “work-life balance” redundant?
Maybe we need new ways to describe and navigate the new pandemic reality.
Finding a way to increase the participation of men and fathers in unpaid care work would have an important influence on a more equal distribution between women and men.
A new study has found US mums have experienced a marked drop in their works hours during the pandemic. But this is not the case for dads.
Working at home has been far from costless, but many of the costs aren’t counted in the GDP.
High-end restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal has allegedly underpaid staff by $4 million. Our research finds wage theft is accepted as the industry norm.
Offering unpaid positions for what should be a paid job is against the law in Australia. What should graduates do then if they’re looking to get a foot in the employment door?
Legal or not, unpaid internships are likely to continue as long as people face barriers breaking into the workforce and some employers see the opportunity for free labour.
The methods used to measure gross domestic product are being criticised for excluding the unpaid work done by women.
Top contributors
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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MenCare Intern, Sonke Gender Justice
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Professor of Work and Regulation, Queensland University of Technology
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Research fellow, Stellenbosch University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Researcher, Work of Social Care Research Program, Centre for People, Organisation & Work, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Resident Physician in Emergency Medicine, Brown University
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Professor of Technology and Organisation, University of Manchester
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Professor of Comparative Employment Systems, University of Manchester
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Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
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Former Senior Lecturer, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Law, Adelaide University
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne