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Abstract
Working Part Time: Reflections on "Practicing" the
Work - Family Juggling Act
Beth Gaze
This paper examines part time work as a solution to the dilemma of reconciling
work and family demands for mothers, in the context of the social devaluation
of caring work and the workforce devaluation of part time workers.
Frameworks suggested by several recent writers in the area are considered,
and the state of the existing Australian case law on discrimination against
part time workers is discussed. Progress in not penalising part time work depends
on broadening the paradigms of the ideal worker beyond the current model of
the full time worker with no domestic impediments.
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