%0 Journal Article
%T Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2017
%A Martijn Boersma
%A Sarah Kaine
%J Journal of Industrial Relations
%@ 1472-9296
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0022185618764204
%X Throughout 2017, public interest, parliamentary debate and academic research about women, work and industrial relations centred around a few key themes: pay and income inequality, health and well-being at work and the intersection of paid and unpaid work. These themes were identified in three related yet distinct mediums: the media, parliamentary debate and academic literature. Automated content analysis software was used to assist in the thematic analysis of media articles and the House of Representatives Hansard, supplemented by a manual analysis of relevant academic publications. A thematic overlap was evident across the three datasets, despite the time lag associated with academic research and publication. This is a significant finding, emphasising that the inequalities experienced by women in the labour market are long term and entrenched
%K Industrial relations
%K Leximancer
%K pay equity
%K women
%K work
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022185618764204