Editorial

Title: Editorial
Creator: Michaels, Wendy
Relation: Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: JIGS Vol. 9, Issue 2, p. 1-5
Relation: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/research/publications/jigs/jigs-index.html
Publisher: University of Newcastle, Faculty of Education and Arts
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2004
Description: We have been compiling this edition against a somewhat disturbing context in which one cannot but wonder where issues of gender are heading in a nation-Australia-that seems to be moving further and further forward to a past of rigidly gendered social practices. With a Prime Minister who has embraced Catherine Hakim's threefold "preference theory" of women's choices in relation to work and children, and a government that has recently put the issue of abortion back on the agenda and a lobby group, the National Fathering Forum, launched by the former Opposition Leader with the aim of redressing the problems of the "new disadvantaged group-men", we find ourselves facing the underlying assumption that the world of paid work is the province of men and that of the domestic the proper province of women.
Subject: editorial; gender studies; roles; social practices
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1049817
Identifier: uon:15083
Identifier: ISSN:1325-1848
Language: eng
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