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Title Tax, social policy and gender : rethinking equality and efficiency / edited by Miranda Stewart.

Publication Info. Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 358 pages)
text file PDF 5MB
Physical Medium polychrome
Summary Gender inequality is profoundly unjust and in clear contradiction to the philosophy of the 'fair go'. In spite of some action by recent governments, Australia has fallen behind in policy and outcomes, even as the G20 group of nations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund are paying renewed attention to gender inequality. Tax, Social Policy and Gender presents new research on entrenched gender inequality in a comparative framework of human rights and fiscal sustainability. Ground-breaking empirical studies examine unequal returns to education for women and men, decision-making about child care by fathers and mothers, the history and gendered effects of the income tax and family payments, and women in the top 1 per cent. Contributors demonstrate how Australia's tax, social security, child care, parental leave, education, work and retirement income policies intersect to compound gender inequality. Tax, Social Policy and Gender calls for a rethinking of equality and efficiency in tax and social policy and provides new policy solutions. It offers a pathway to achieve gender mainstreaming for women's economic security and the wellbeing of all Australians.
Contents Gender inequality in Australia's tax-transfer system / Miranda Stewart -- Part I: Frameworks for gender analysis. Australian tax-transfer policies and taxing for gender equality: Comparative perspectives and reform options / Kathleen Lahey -- Gender equity in the tax-transfer system for fiscal sustainability / Patricia Apps -- Gender equality and a rights-based approach to tax reform / Helen Hodgson and Kerrie Sadiq -- Part II: Work and care. Taxes, transfers, family policies and paid work over the female life cycle / Guyonne Kalb -- Paying for care in Australia's 'wage earners' welfare state': The case of child endowment / Julie Smith -- Parents' primary and secondary child care time adjustment to market time: Evidence from Australian mothers and fathers / Huong Dinh and Maria Racionero -- Part III: Human capital, savings and retirement. Gender differences in costs and returns to higher education / Mathias Sinning -- Women and top incomes in Australia / Miranda Stewart, Sarah Voitchovsky and Roger Wilkins -- Budgeting for women's rights in retirement / Siobhan Austen and Rhonda Sharp -- Part IV: Towards gender equality in the tax-transfer system. Pathways and processes towards a gender equality policy / Meredith Edwards and Miranda Stewart.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access National edeposit: Available online with download restriction Unrestricted online access. AU-CaNED
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Fiscal policy -- Australia.
Fiscal policy.
Australia.
Income tax -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
Income tax -- Law and legislation.
Equality before the law -- Australia.
Equality before the law.
Gender mainstreaming -- Australia.
Gender mainstreaming.
Women -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
Women -- Taxation -- Law and legislation.
Indexed Term Australian
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Stewart, Miranda, 1968-
Australian National University Press.
Other Form: Print version: Tax, social policy and gender. Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2017 (DLC) 2018410002
ISBN 9781760461485 (electronic book)
1760461482 (electronic book)
9781760461478 (paperback)
1760461474 (paperback)
Standard No. YBP15088925