article-article-body
The impacts on female employment of the government’s revamped Stage 3 tax cuts continue to attract less debate than notionally more glamorous subjects such as the push for more “tax reform”. That’s of a piece with how the ongoing and significant feminisation of the workforce is routinely overlooked by the media and politicians.
By now it’s an old story for Crikey readers, but it just keeps happening: the rise and rise and rise, and rise, of caring services in the economy. According to the most recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) quarterly workforce data, health and social care employment reached a record 2.23
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bernard Keane is Crikey’s political editor. Before that he was Crikey’s Canberra press gallery correspondent, covering politics, national security and economics.
Handpicked for you
How Labor’s Stage 3 tax cuts will benefit women workers
One aspect of Labor’s amendments to the Stage 3 tax cuts that has received limited coverage so far is the differing effects for workers by gender.
SME tax experts bracing for compliance cost of Stage 3 tax cut tweaks
Adjustments to Stage 3 income tax cuts will bring quiet compliance costs to small businesses and their advisors, one accountant says, as the profession calls for more holisitic tax reform.
COMMENTS
SmartCompany is committed to hosting lively discussions. Help us keep the conversation useful, interesting and welcoming. We aim to publish comments quickly in the interest of promoting robust conversation, but we’re a small team and we deploy filters to protect against legal risk. Occasionally your comment may be held up while it is being reviewed, but we’re working as fast as we can to keep the conversation rolling.
The SmartCompany comment section is members-only content. Please subscribe to leave a comment.
The SmartCompany comment section is members-only content. Please login to leave a comment.