Comparative study of the status of women in Canada and Australia

Title: Comparative study of the status of women in Canada and Australia
Creator: Wright, Nancy Elizabeth; Collins-Gearing, Brooke Marie
Relation: Australian Canadian Studies Vol. 22, Issue 1, p. 1-7
Relation: http://www.acsanz.org.au/journal.html
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2004
Description: A recent scholarship comparing Canada to Australia has been particularly productive in identifying factors benefiting women workers. The history of the economic, legal and political status of women in Canada has relevance beyond the boundaries of that nation. These articles reveal change from the nineteenth to the twenty-first has yet to secure equality, not only between men and women but, as importamtly, among women. Factors common to both countries include sex-segregation of occupations, lower rates of pay for "female" work and the marginalisation of women workers.
Subject: women; status; workers; Australia; Canada; equality
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804358
Identifier: uon:6597
Identifier: ISSN:0810-1906
Language: eng
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