Valuable Charities, Invaluable Women
Morris, Lucy Charities and nonprofit(NP)organisations are an accepted feature of Australian civil society. In 2006-07 it was estimated there were 700, 000 in the nonprofit sector. The most economically significant NPs employed 995, 000 people. In 2008, 87% of these were women. This workforce gender profile has not changed throughout the sectory's history and it has significant implications for how care work is conceptualised, valued and included in broader...