Gender, Work and Society: a guide to library resources

 Contents:

• Starting points
• Finding books
• Finding journal articles
• Finding newspaper articles (this links to another guide)
• Statistics
• Web resources
  

Related subject guides which may be helpful:

Guide to Sources for Gender Studies

Starting points

When you need to define your topic and/or get some background reading try consulting a  dictionary or encyclopedia. The most recent print editions are located in the Reference Collection on level 3 South. Some are also available electronically.

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

Cambridge handbook of social sciences in Australia (2003) [print]

Australian feminism : a companion (1998) [print]

How Australia compares (2004) [print]

International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (2002) [electronic]
Not specifically Australian, but useful for definition and background.  
Also available in print

Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women’s issues and knowledge, 4 vol. (2000) [print]
Vol. 1 also available online

Macquarie atlas of Indigenous Australia : culture and society through space and time (2005) [print]

Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. 2 vols. (1994) [electronic]
Also available in print

Dictionary of globalization (2006) [print]

Anti-capitalist dictionary (2006) [print]

Bibliographies

Women, work and the tax transfer system : an annotated bibliography (1997) [print]    

Spectrum : a bibliography of women in Australia, 1945 to the present (1995) [print] 

Bibliography of women and work in Australia (1989)

Searching The Library Catalogue For Books

Use these terms in subject heading and guided keyword searches in the library catalogue:

Women  Employment  Australia......lots to browse
Women  Australia Social conditions
Women  Australia Economic conditions
Equal pay for equal work Australia
Pay equity Australia.
Sex discrimination in employment Australia
Family taxation  Australia
Sexual harassment of women  Australia
Sexual harassment    Australia
Aboriginal Australians Employment.....browse......especially Statistics
Family policy Australia

Minority women Employment
Women alien labor
Minority women Economic conditions
Use these 3 headings combined with the subject heading........ Globalization.
Using the subject heading gets aroung the keyword problem of globlization/globalisation

Parental leave Australia
Maternity leave Australia
Dual career families
Work and family

Youth Employment Australia
Labor supply Australia
Wages Youth Australia

Find Journal Articles Using Databases

Australia

Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre

If your essay takes you to issues of family, ethnicity or economics try these databases:

FAMILY: Australian Family and Society Abstracts 

MAIS : Multicultural Australia and Immigration Studies

Business Australia

International

Academic OneFile
Contains more than 12,000 academic journals, the majority peer-reviewed and in full text
Coverage 1980-

Academic Search Premier
Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.

Statistics

Australia

Statistical profile : women in South Australia (2004)
Prepared by the Office for Women with the assistance of the South Australian Office of the Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics website. Statistics section
Click on the links and then search the site for terms such as social trends, women and employment etc.

Pregnancy and employment transitions, Australia, expanded confidentialised unit record file, technical manual Nov 2005
From Australian Bureau of Statistics

Women in Australia 2009
From Australian Government Office for Women (OfW)

International

World economic and social survey
From the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Statistics and indicators on women and men
From the United Nations. Includes The World’s Women 2005: progress in statistics  (2006) [electronic]
and The World's women 2000 : trends and statistics (2000) [print]

Web resources

Australia

ACOSS - Australian Council of Social Service

ACTU - Australian Council of Trade Unions

Australian Government Equal Oopportunity For Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA)
EOWA's role is to administer the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 (Commonwealth) and through education, assist organisations to achieve equal opportunity for women

Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)

Australian Human Rights Commission - Sex Discrimination

Australia’s Paid Parental Leave Scheme: Supporting working Australian families (2009)
Outlines Australian Government’s Paid Parental Leave - commences on 1 January 2011

Australian Policy online
Use the search box to find articles on women and employment 

Australian Work + Family Policy Roundtable
Its goal is to propose, comment upon, collect and disseminate relevant policy research

Barbara Pocock studies work in Australia

Collected works: 1980-2001: Australian Institute of Family Studies
an Australian Institute of Family Studies publication

Fair Work Australia

Parliamentary library. E-Brief Paid maternity leave, 2002-2004

Pay Equity from the NSW Office of industrial Relations

Productivity Commission. Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental leave: Public Inquiry
Final Inquiry report (2009)

UniSA Centre for Work + Life , including their reports:
The Australian Work and Life Index 2007
Women and Work Choices

Wage and Income Inequality in Two Welfare States: Australia and Sweden, Peter Saunders, 1995, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW

WEL (Women's Electroal Lobby) - Work and Income

Working Women in South Australia: Progress, Prospects and Challenges (2009)
A report to the Premier's Council for Women by Prof Barbara Pocock

Working Women's Centres

Youth wages and employment
Paper from the Productivity Commission (1998)

Sydney University Workplace Research Centre 
Under Documents find reports including 2008 Australia at Work - working Lives: Statistics and Stories

International

Clean clothes campaign
An alliance of organisations in 12 European countries. Includes trade unions and NGOs covering a  such issues as women’s rights, consumer advocacy and poverty reduction

International Labour Organization e.quality@work
An information base on EEO for men and women

Oxfam Australia Campaigns - Labour Rights - Sportswear Workers Rights

Maternity leave around the world

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
See Gender Equality and Empowerment Issues

Last update: 15 July 2009 Helen Attar