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Diverging Paths: Occupational Sex Segregation, Australia, And The Oecd, Kirsti Rawstron
Diverging Paths: Occupational Sex Segregation, Australia, And The Oecd, Kirsti Rawstron
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In the mid-1980s, “Australia held the title for the most sex segregated labour force in the OECD area” (OECD, 1984 in Pocock 1998: 590). Does this still hold true? In this paper, series analysis is employed to explore what has happened to occupational sex segregation in Australia since 1984. I do this by measuring changes in the Index of Association. The level, and change in trend, of occupational sex segregation in Australia is also compared to that of selected other groups of OECD nations between 2000 and 2010, including the Pacific Rim OECD nations and those nations which are included …
Sex And Censorship During The Occupation Of Japan, Mark J. Mclelland
Sex And Censorship During The Occupation Of Japan, Mark J. Mclelland
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This chapter entitled “Sex and Censorship During the Occupation of Japan” is excerpted from Mark McLelland’s Love, Sex and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation (Palgrave MacMillan 2012). The book examines the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan’s defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Although there have been other studies that have focused on sexual and romantic relationships between Japanese women and US military personnel, little attention has been given to how the Occupation impacted upon the courtship …