Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0209510]Researchers: Prof Patricia Grimshaw (Chief Investigator) , Shurlee Swain (Chief Investigator)
Brief description Re-inventing Motherhood: Women, Breadwinning and Childcare in Australia, 1880-1980. The project aims to analyse the evolving experiences of working mothers in Australia from 1880 to 1980 to ascertain how women and their families handled the tensions between work, survival strategies, and child care. It will challenge current views of a simple dichotomy between public work and private family lives, exploring the interlinking of forms of work and care, and their intersections with class, ethnicity and race.This will provide a significant new base for understanding the historical evolution of women's work and family life and for formulating social policy today in an age of the dual-income family.
Funding Amount $157,805
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0209510
- ARC : DP0209510