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Women, Work and Social Care in the New Welfare State

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Tuesday 19th July, 5:30pm

What Working Women Want:  Victoria's Work/Family Balance Agenda

The Honourable Mary Delahunty
Minister for Women's Affairs

Mary Delahunty has a passionate commitment and a strong record of participation in education, the arts, politics, and women's and civic affairs including roles as Minister for Education (1999-2002), Minister
Responsible for the Centenary of Federation (Victoria) (1999-2001),  Minister for Planning (2002-2005), and Minister responsible for Eureka 150th Celebrations 2004.
 
Prior to entering Parliament, Mary Delahunty established a prominent career  in television news, current affairs and the arts and reported nationally and internationally for the ABC and commercial television, producing
numerous documentaries and anchoring live broadcasts.
 
As Minister for Women's Affairs, (2002 - ) Mary Delahunty has overseen an  increase in the numbers of women appointed to Government Boards and  Committees by 8 per cent to just under 40 per cent, the release of the Women's Safety Strategy - the first comprehensive statement on women's safety in 17 years from any Victorian Government ­ to reduce the level and fear of violence against women, and the Action Agenda for Work & Family Balance, which has seen more than 6000 parents receive Parents Returning to Work Grants.
 
Mary has also been responsible for Victoria's first Indigenous Women's  Forum for women from across the State and the release of the second forward plan for women, Leading with Victoria's Women 2004-2007, which outlines new projects and strategies to improve women's lives. 

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Tuesday 26th July, 5:30pm

Women’s work in crisis?

JaneMaree Maher
Monash University

JaneMaree Maher is a lecturer in women's studies in the school of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. She teaches 'Women, Media and Consumption', Gender and Crime' and 'Feminism and Popular Culture'. Her current research interests include: fertility decision-making, work/family balance, domestic labour and representations of pregnancy and birth.

Meshing work and family: Women's transitional labour practices

Jo Lindsay
Monash University

Jo Lindsay is a Lecturer in Sociology in the school of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. She teaches ‘Families, labour and intimacy’ and ‘Sociological research’. Her current research interests include: work/family balance, family diversity, alcohol consumption and youth.

Tuesday 2nd August, 5:30pm

Women working in dense masculinities

Sue Lewis
Swinburne University

Dr Sue Lewis is Director of the National Centre for Gender and Cultural Diversity (NCGCD) in the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology.  The Centre focuses on research and consulting in gender, diversity and cultural change specialising in ‘non-traditional’ areas of work and study for women.  Sue has over 15 years experience of researching gender and work issues in a range of organisational contexts with emphases on uniformed services, engineering, science, information technology and technology-based industries.  Her research interests focus on understanding the complex issues surrounding gender, work and organisational change in these dense masculinities.

Sue has been working as a researcher in a range of ‘masculine’ organisations and this paper will focus on bringing together the current challenges – both theoretical and practical – of working in these organizations long after many have assumed they are  ‘gender neutral’. 

What are the key factors that influence women's paid work and family after childbirth?: Preliminary Findings

Sheree Cartwright
RMIT

Sheree Cartwright has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Newcastle, and is currently undertaking the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Social Science and Planning at RMIT University. Sheree is currently in the second year of her PhD exploring “What are the key factors which influence the ways in which women make decisions about paid work and family after childbirth?” Sheree is also employed as a Research assistant at the Centre for Applied Social Research and is working on an ACR Linkage Grant examining work-life integration at two Australian organisations. She also tutors in Qualitative Social Research at RMIT University. Sheree’s current research interests include: the paid work/family debate in Australia, gender, women’s health and well-being, and qualitative research methodology. She has published work in refereed journals and a monograph in the areas of women’s time-use in post-modernity, women’s decisions about paid work and family in Australia. Her previous research employment includes: The Australian Longitudinal Study for Women’s Health, reproductive services at Melbourne IVF, and various projects in public health and social work.

Click here to download Sheree's presentation (Powerpoint)

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