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Women Really Care
Author(s) -
Mowbray Martin,
Bryson Lois
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1984.tb01269.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , publishing , state (computer science) , control (management) , welfare , public economics , business , welfare state , public expenditure , public welfare , transfer (computing) , public administration , economics , public relations , political science , management , market economy , law , algorithm , public finance , politics , parallel computing , computer science , macroeconomics
Pressures to contain or reduce public expenditure are giving rise to policies geared to reduce the demand for direct state services. These involve alternative programs featuring the transfer of responsibilities, but not necessarily control, to more local, private, and family bases. Such trends depend upon the availability of the apparently cheap labour of women. Community care generally means care by females, but this fact is usually unacknowledged and the costs of the emerging programs tend to be reckoned only as those accruing to the state. Here we focus on two policy areas in which community and family have been emphasised, family day care and deinstitutionalisation in child welfare. *