Jobs, Work, Justice and Gender in the Pandemic
Webinar organised by Sustainable Prosperity, 24th August 2020. Australia went into the pandemic with high under-employment, stagnant wages, widespread wage theft and long-lived gender inequities at work and at home. How has the pandemic affected these? How have responses to the pandemic addressed - or failed to address - these challenges? What should we do to fix work-based injustices and create jobs for women and men during the pandemic and recession that follows?
Speakers: Emeritus Professor Barbara Pocock, UniSA and Abbey Kendall, Director Working Women's Centre SA.
Speech at Parliament House Opposing Import of Nuclear Waste into SA Mothers for a Sustainable South Australia, Barbara Pocock Speaking (2017)
Work, home and communities: How do we get our suburbs right? A talk I gave just b4 lockdown at Whittlesea Council in outer-Melb about what it takes to create good lives in our outer suburbs – in ways that include women, men and children. Shows our research findings, put to work...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ktSGlLSv4Y&feature=youtu.be
NATIONAL LECTURES
'Working Hard for the Money' 2016, Victorian Fabian Society Future of Work Lecture
'Holding up Half the Sky: Women at work in the 20th Century'
the Fay Gale Lecture, University of Adelaide, (2015)