Since the 1970s Australia has been one of the few countries that has progressively advanced the concept of gender pay … created by industrial tribunals have been able to improve the pay of women workers, due to their coverage of the workforce of … increases in award-based wages for certain industries dominated by women workers. However, the capacity of state tribunals to …

Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value meant that in theory at least the concept of equal pay for work of … equal value applied throughout Australia when award wage rates were decided by industrial tribunals. Nevertheless, the … Australia can be seen by the proportion of female full-time 'ordinary time earnings', that is earnings that exclude overtime …

extends small loans to poor people, mainly women, for self-employment activities thus allowing clients to achieve a better … quality of life. This program is regarded as a very exciting anti-poverty tool for the poorest, especially for women. This … further analyses the impact of microcredit on women?s empowerment. Primary data has been collected from the borrowers of two …

in-depth interviews were conducted on fifty-four software firms in Australia and the findings discussed. …

model is that it allows for the estimation of firms' efficiency in of various groups that might differ in technology and … operational characteristics of health care foodservice operations. The estimation process was initially supported by a hypothesis …

attending naturopathy and WHM practitioners in Australia; and (iii) focus group research carried out with Victorian consumers. …