Workplace gender equality in the post-pandemic era

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ID21349375
AuthorsMeraiah Foley (0000-0003-1368-9049, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia, corresponding author), Rae Cooper (0000-0002-6964-3085, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia)
Year2021
Volume63
Issue4
Pages463-476
Publication date2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Industrial Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1856 • E-ISSN: 1472-9296
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00221856211035173
OpenAlexW3196030710
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited48

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and accelerated many gendered labour market inequalities in Australia and around the world. In this introduction to our special issue, ‘Workplace Gender Equality: Where are we now and where to next?’, we examine the impact of the pandemic on women’s employment, labour force participation, earnings, unpaid care work and experience of gendered violence. We identify five key areas where action is urgently required to create a more equitable post-pandemic recovery: addressing gender-based labour market segregations and discrimination; building access to mutually beneficial flexibility; ensuring a more gender-equitable distribution of unpaid care; confronting gender-based violence at work and beyond; and mobilising union action through gender equality bargaining

Action (physics) · Care work · Collective bargaining · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Earnings · Economics · Flexibility (engineering) · Gender equality · Gender inequality · Gender pay gap · Inequality · Labour economics · Pandemic · Political science · Sociology · Unpaid work · Wage · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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