Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce
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Lifetime
Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce fills a gap in
the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at
work by focusing on the inadequacies of the current law and the need for
a new holistic approach. Each stage of the working life cycle for women
is examined with a critical consideration of how the law attempts to
address the problems that inhibit women's labour force participation. By
using their model of lifetime disadvantage, the authors show how the
law adopts an incremental and disjointed approach to resolving the
challenges, and argue that a more holistic orientation towards
eliminating women's discrimination and disadvantage is required before
true gender equality can be achieved. Using the concept of resilience
from vulnerability theory, the authors advocate a reconfigured workplace
that acknowledges yet transcends gender.
