The High Tide of a Labour Market System: The Australasian Male Breadwinner Model

Nolan, Melanie

doi:10.1080/10301763.2003.10669273

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“…The steady growth of the community services area of the economy, largely driven by the public sector, provided an enormous area of growth in women's employment. As a result, the state's role as the largest single employer in a tight labour market served to undermine its role in upholding the traditional male breadwinner model, reflecting conflicts and a lack of coherency within the state in relation to women (Nolan 2003). Governments also provided a growing welfare state structure that underpinned individual and family welfare and social reproduction where the family failed or couldn't cope.…”

Section: Australia's Post War Gender Ordermentioning

confidence: 97%

“…However, the character of the post war Australian male breadwinner model has recently been the subject of debate and re-evaluation. Melanie Nolan (2003) and Humphrey McQueen (2003), in particular, have raised questions about the extent to which a male breadwinner model remained the dominant cultural and ideological pattern underpinning welfare, labour market and household arrangements. Both researchers have suggested that, by the 1950s, the male breadwinner model had actually passed its zenith.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

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The Changing Male Breadwinner Model in Australia: a New Gender Order?

Broomhill

Sharp

2004

Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic rel

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Complex changes have occurred in the Australian gender order in the past few decades. A strong version of a male breadwinner/female carer gender order was an important component of early 2(Jh century Australian social, economic and political institutional frameworks. While the male breadwinner model was far from either universal or uniform in the post World War //period, significant further changes have recently occurred. Although many aspects of the traditional gender order remain intact, it has been profoundly disrupted by restructuring within the labour market and also by the decline of the nuclear family and other socio-economic changes affecting gender arrangements within households. These changes have led to increased complexity and diversity in existing gender arrangements. Furthermore, changes and continuities in gender arrangements have not been experienced evenly and a growing polarisation has occurred in the gender roles and arrangements within different socio-economic groups in society. The winners and losers from the impact of economic and social restructuring are frequently engaged in quite different strategies of adjustment, resulting in both changed and reinforced versions of the traditional male breadwinner model.

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Section: Australia's Post War Gender Ordermentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Changing Male Breadwinner Model in Australia: a New Gender Order?

Broomhill

Sharp

2004

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“…With increasing numbers of women in the workforce, social attitudes towards women's paid work began to change and many women called for change (Lake 1999: 214-252;Patmore 1991: 161-183). The marriage bar was removed for teachers in New South Wales in 1947and Victoria in 1956(Nolan 2003Dwyer 2006). By 1970 the female labour force participation rate was 38.6 per cent.…”

Section: Women At Work In the 1970smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Shortages of teachers, propelled by the increased birth rate and increased length in education, forced a reconsideration of the marriage bar which existed in all public services, instrumentalities such as the Commonwealth Bank and local government. The marriage bar was removed for teachers in New South Wales in 1947and Victoria in 1956(Nolan 2003Dwyer 2006). However, despite labour market shortages in public services and activism by women the marriage bar remained in place in the federal public service and all other states until 1966 (Sheridan and Stretton 2004).…”

Section: Women At Work In the 1970smentioning

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Still working for the man? Women's employment experiences in Australia since 1950

Strachan¹

2010

Aust J Social Issues

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This article tackles the question of what is the 'good life' for women in employment in Australia through an examination of national legislation and policies. Since 1950 what has been seen as the good life has changed dramatically. The article outlines three phases of change: in the 1950s and 1960s men were regarded as the wage earners and women the homemakers, with women barred from some jobs and paid less than men; in the 1970s legislation and equal pay cases removed overt discrimination against women; from the mid 1980s the complexity of achieving equality for women at work was recognised through equal opportunity legislation, work and family policies and equal pay inquiries. In 2010 the 'good life' for women is having the same opportunities and outcomes in employment as men. While policy provisions support this, the reality of achieving this is difficult. So in 2010 many women are still 'working for the man' in the context that most managers are men.

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“…These practices deterred women’s labor force participation and institutionalized a male breadwinner model in which men were considered to be the ‘financial leaders’ within their households [18]. A legacy of these institutional arrangements is the historical and contemporary high prevalence of female part-time work in Australia, which entrenches women’s financial dependence on their male partners [19]. To the extent that these factors have remained embedded in the Australian social ethos, the banking arrangements of couples in Australia may exhibit different patterns than those in other developed countries–such as the US, Norway or the UK.…”

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To pool or not to pool? Trends and predictors of banking arrangements within Australian couples

2019

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The study of domestic money goes at the heart of debates about independence and equality in intimate relationships. It provides an important window on the individualization of family life and how couples reconcile ideals around egalitarian marriage ideologies with enduring gender inequality in society and the labor market. This study approaches these issues from the prism of couples’ banking arrangements (separate vs. joint accounts), an aspect of financial organization that approximates the executive management of household resources and which has received comparatively little attention. As such, it is amongst the first to deploy large-scale, household panel data ( Household , Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey , n = 15,379 observations from 7,054 couples) and binary and multinomial random-effect logistic regression models to examine trends over time in couples’ banking arrangements and their socio-demographic predictors. Key findings indicate that a large share of couples in Australia favors ‘mixed’ bank account strategies (i.e., holding both joint and separate accounts), but ‘egalitarian’ choices (i.e., dual separate accounts) are prevalent and on the rise. Couples’ bank account choices are influenced in theoretically-meaningful ways by economic resources, transaction costs, relationship history, gender-role attitudes, and family background.

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The High Tide of a Labour Market System: The Australasian Male Breadwinner Model

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

The Changing Male Breadwinner Model in Australia: a New Gender Order?

The Changing Male Breadwinner Model in Australia: a New Gender Order?

Still working for the man? Women's employment experiences in Australia since 1950

To pool or not to pool? Trends and predictors of banking arrangements within Australian couples

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