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A greater number of jobs available in the service sector, globalisation, and the feminist movements are some of the reason that there has been a steady increase of Australian women entering the workforce. This reality coupled with the dramatic rise in divorce rates over the last few years has seen a new social group predominating in the lower socio economic areas. Single mothers who work part time or on a casual basis. It is this group that we will be looking at in detail, as we try to understand what forces are at work to disadvantage these women in the workforce and consequently, in every day life.The fast moving force that is globalisation has contributed to women's entrance and growing persistence in the workforce, which has benefited the economy as well as the economic well being, and personal independence of women (Maynes, 2004). However, Subrumaniam (2003) states that although there has been an opening for employment for women, the jobs that have been opened are mainly in the low paying area of the service sector, home work and migratory labour, a factor that suggests gender inequality has not been reduced, only reborn in another form. This inequality is exasperated when the case is looked at from the perspective
"Employed Single Mothers: Balancing Jobs and Home Life". Studies show that the majority of sole mothers want to work but have difficulties in finding employment which fits in with their family responsibilities. 1 million of these children live with just one parent, usually the mother. A study by Conelly and Kimmel (2003:761) deduced that full time employment is associated with a greater use of child care facilities. Through these new policies, Australia could then be characterised as a country that is in transition, with the issue regarding the mother/worker changing and creating a shift from supporting sole mothers at home to increasing the support offered to these mothers in creating and encouraging employment opportunities. For sole mothers, with school-age children, who are in employment there are also struggles in regards to child care with these mothers finding it difficult to find places in after-school care that is affordable due to the fee relief not being adequate enough to cover costs. nsf/e5cb0b45f4547cc4ca25697500217f47/28f203d3e10ef834ca2568a90013628cAustralian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2000). Although a sole mother with only one dependent child would only receive an income support equivalent to that of about 35% of a males average earning wage (ABS 1994), an amount that, while not generous, still provides the women with the ability to be or remain full-time mothers.
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