Tax, social policy and gender : rethinking equality and efficiency

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

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 Developm...

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Corporate Author: Australian National University Press
Other Authors: Stewart, Miranda, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Fiscal policy > Australia.
Income tax > Law and legislation > Australia.
Equality before the law > Australia.
Gender mainstreaming > Australia.
Women > Taxation > Law and legislation > Australia.
Equality before the law.
Fiscal policy.
Equality before the law
Fiscal policy
Gender mainstreaming
Income tax > Law and legislation
Women > Taxation > Law and legislation
Australia
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Table of 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.

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