The 1997 Negotiating the Life Course

Type

Activity

Activity Type

Project

Group Affiliation

Negotiating the Life Course

Title

The 1997 Negotiating the Life Course

Funding Body

Research School of Social Sciences, ANU

Date activity began

1997

Date the activity ended

1997

Brief Description

Negotiating the Life Course is a longitudinal study undertaken by the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University and the School of Social Science, University of Queensland.

The Negotiating the Life Course Project is designed to study the changing life courses and decision-making processes of Australian men and women as the family and society move from male breadwinner orientation in the direction of higher levels of gender equity.

Full Description

The Negotiating the Life Course Project has six aims:

to extend the theories of human capital and new home economics in explaining women's and men's labour force participation;

to map women's and men's work trajectories over their life course, from career entry into retirement, and to develop explanatory models of career trajectories;

to identify those aspects of the family-household system and the labour market that facilitate or impede women's involvement with the labour market;

to investigate the interrelationships between labour force decisions about family formation and household arrangements;

to identify the portfolio of resources that women and men draw upon throughout their lives when making decisions about career and family;

and to assess the policy implications of the findings of the project for the institutions of the welfare state, the labour market and the family.

Contact Email

nlc@anu.edu.au

Contact Address

Negotiating the Life Course Project
Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

Contact Phone Number

+61 2 6125 1549

Contact Fax Number

+61 2 6125 3031

Website Address

http://lifecourse.anu.edu.au/

Fields of Research

160805 - Social Change

Socio-Economic Objective

940501 - Employment Patterns and Change

Keywords

Careers
Child care
Education
Employment
Fertility
Health
Home economics
Housing
Human relations
Income
Marriage
Occupations
Religion

Type of Research Activity

Pure basic research

Publications

Identifier Type
uri
Identifier Value
http://lifecourse.anu.edu.au/publications/index.php
Publication Reference
Negotiating the Life Course. (2012) Publications. Accessed 30 November 2012.

Related Websites

URL	Title
http://lifecourse.anu.edu.au/	Negotiating the Life Course

Status: Published
Published To:
- Australian National Data Service
Identifier: anudc:3323