WORK BABIES & WOMEN'S CHOICES IN 21ST CENTURY AUSTRALIA

THE END OF EQUALITY

Work, Babies and Women's Choices in 21st Century Australia

Written by Anne Summers

What happended to the once proudly proclaimed equality of opportunity for Australian women? Why do so many in the first decade of the 21st century feel exhausted and trapped, discouraged and disheartened? Is there real choice in women's lives today?

In The End of Equality, bestselling author and groundbreaking feminist Anne Summers confronts these questions and the diverse realities of Australian women's lives today, showing how their economic, political and social well being has been steadily and systematically undermined over the past ten years. Her conclusions are alarming, even shocking. Consider this:

• More than 160,000 Australian women are prevented from working because they can't get childcare
• Women's total average earnings are just 66% of men's - less than they were ten years ago
• Mothers of young children suffer government imposed finanial penalties for choosing to be in the workforce
• Fully 25% of Australian women today will never have children
• Less than 10% of senior executives in Australian companies are women
• As of late 2002 only 8.2% of the directors of Australia's top 200 companies were women

Far from achieving the quality promised them a generation ago, women in this country are still battling for recognition and equal pay and promotion in the workplace; for the right to return to work after they have children; and to not suffer discrimination when they are pregnant. Why is there a birth rate crisis in Australia, and will the government's breeding creedy succeed in steering women away from employment and into full time motherhood? Anne Summers blows these issues wide open, and in a narrative that is at once disquieting and compelling, holds a mirror to the lives of Australian women and offers an unsettling reflection of our country in the 21st century.

As well as being a work of formidable social, political and economic analysis, The End of Equality is also a deeply personal one. Threaded through the narrative are the voices and experiences of Australian women of all ages and backgrounds discussing their lives and their choices. Their words and Summers insights and conclusions will inflame, inspire and provide an impetus for the long overdue action needed to redress a situation which can no longer go unchallenged.

• Softcover Book
• Size 16cm W x 23cm H
• 327 Pages in Good Condition

ISBN 1740512871

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