The Politics of Gender Equality: Australian Lessons in an Uncertain World

by Carol Johnson

This open access book provides the first in-depth study of the development of federal gender equality politics and policy in Australia from the 1970s to the present day. Australia has a history of gender equality innovation, including granting women's suffrage long before equivalent countries. From the 1970s on, it became the first country to introduce a women's adviser, femocrats (feminist bureaucrats) and gender responsive budgeting but then...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031648153
• ISBN13: 9783031648151
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"