For nearly 60 years, Cue dressed Australian women for changing working lives. Its troubles reveal how work, fashion and professional dress have changed.
Articles on Women's work
Displaying all articles
New analysis reveals just how much “invisible” caring and housework is worth to the economy.
In Mum’s Busy Work, Ardern uses her experience of being ‘a working mother who juggled mum guilt’ to open up a conversation and find a better way.
A new report recommends changes to the popular and growing wellness industry to protect workers from mistreatment and exploitation.
Pay equity is not the same as equal pay, and is harder to calculate because women’s work is concentrated in low-paying industries. But without pay equity, all New Zealanders pay.
In Canada, where fewer than 10 per cent of kids regularly eat school-provided meals, parents, especially mothers, are left to juggle school lunches, often under major pressure.
A historian of gender and women’s rights explains how women’s protests focused on their rights evolved from the 1960s through the present.
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.
If you’ve watched many period dramas, you’ve probably seen a mantua. It was worn over a pair of stays (corset) and an often contrasting petticoat. The draping fabric created a front-opening gown.
Our research shows that aged care work is still stigmatised by other health professionals as dirty, difficult and low-status – more than most other jobs.
There were no specific initiatives for women’s work in the budget, leaving New Zealand trailing Australia when it comes to gender balance.
We need a new childcare system that encourages women to work, not punishes them for it
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer, Te Huataki Waiora School of Health, University of Waikato
-
Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
-
Susan E. and William P. Distinguished Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Professor of History Emerita, Washington University in St. Louis
-
Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
Research fellow, The University of Queensland
-
Research Fellow, University of Waikato
-
Senior Lecturer, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
-
Research Fellow, University of Waikato
-
Visiting Fellow, The University of Western Australia
-
Research Assistant, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
Associate Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health, University of British Columbia
-
Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, University of Waikato
-
Lecturer, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Waikato