Women and Economics
Women’s pay and conditions in an era of changing workplace regulations:
Towards a “Women’s Employment Status Key Indicators” (WESKI) database
Prepared by Alison Preston, Therese Jefferson, Richard Seymour
WiSER - Women in Social & Economic Research Curtin University of Technology
[http://www.humanrights.gov.au/pdf/sex_discrim/WESKISept2006.pdf]
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gender: Resources, issues, critical use. Women's Studies International Forum,
22(2), 249-259.
Deacon, D. (1985). Political Arithmetic: The nineteenth century Australian census
and the construction of the dependent woman. Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society, 11(1), 27-47
Folbre, N. (1991). The unproductive housewife: Her evolution in nineteenth century
economic thought. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 16(3),
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