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Securing Women's Economic Security, Safety, and Freedom : The Role of Universal Basic Income in Australia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Staines, Zoe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Basic income.
- Women--Economic conditions.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (137 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
- Summary:
- Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a policy measure for supporting economic security has attracted worldwide attention. This book contributes to the discussion by focusing on UBI's potential impacts for women, including women of colour and First Nations women.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- What is known about a UBI for women?
- UBI for women: Australia as a case study
- Aims and approach of this book
- Chapter 2: Putting UBI into context
- Setting the scene: the Australian context
- ustralian social assistance: shifting sands
- Australia and a UBI: A missed opportunity in 1975?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Women's economic (in)security
- An Australian UBI and women's overall economic security
- UBI and caregiving
- UBI and unpaid care
- UBI and commodified care
- Improving paid work
- Supplementing shrinking and harmful social security nets
- Increasing material support
- Chapter 4: Violence against women
- Escaping domestic & family violence
- Escaping insecure and unsafe housing
- Chapter 5: Women's health
- UBI, resource scarcity, and health behaviours
- UBI and people with disability
- UBI and chronic stress
- UBI and avoiding social security stigma
- Chapter 6: Looking to the future
- Getting the wider policy & program architecture right for Australian women
- Reassessing Australia's couple rule
- Improving access to escaping violence payments
- Improving access to commodified care options
- Amending existing Australian social security
- (Re)prioritising collective bargaining
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 - Detailed summary of research methodology
- Appendix 2 - Australian social expenditure
- (a)Appendix 3 - Australian social expenditure
- (b)Appendix 4 - Proportion of female employees by industry type
- Appendix 5 - Remuneration by sex across female-dominated, male-dominated, and mixed industries.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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