gender, work and society

  • Your paper must be referenced with a reference list attached.
  • Students should read widely for this essay. You must use a minimum of 10 references – 6 peer reviewed – from the following sources:
    • All relevant readings and ideas from the reader.
    • At least three additional sources relevant to your argument. These can be from the further readings listed for each topic in this course guide or found through the library.
    • You may include one or two popular representations of the issue under discussion, for example a document from the Liberal Partys website, the ACTU website, or a newspaper opinion piece.
    • The Australian Bureau of Statistics and other government websites are not peer reviewed but act as evidence to support your argument.

Topics (choose one):

  1. ‘There is no such thing as the gender pay gap: women simply choose to be paid less.’ Discuss.
  2. ‘I can’t put a smiley face on’ (Colin, aged 24, unskilled manual worker quoted in Nixon 2009, p. 315). Are all men privileged? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages that result from masculinity in today’s labour market.
  1. To what extent are patterns of social reproduction changing in the 21st century? Explain how your own household allocates reproductive and/or domestic labour, and compare and contrast with what the research tells us.
  2. ‘..[C]asuals were denied the basic benefits that had accrued during the previous century’s improvements in working conditions’ (Wynnhausen 2005, pp.167-8). Australia has one of the highest rates of casualised labour in the world. Is this a good thing, and for whom? Evaluate the benefits and problems caused by this system.
  3. Do welfare-to-work policies help those who are on welfare benefits or make their problems worse? Evaluate the effectiveness and fairness of this approach to welfare.
  4. Australia has been referred to as ‘the working man’s paradise’, but is it currently a paradise for everyone? Discuss with reference to the experiences of: women, Aboriginal workers, migrant workers, or young people (choose one).
  5. What is ‘feminised labour’? Explain and illustrate with suitable examples from your research.

Assessment criteria for major essay:

  • Relevance: Answers the set question
  • Literature searching: Location of sufficient relevant readings from appropriate sources
  • Structure: Logical, well organised argument that flows
  • Evidence: Appropriate use of readings and examples to support argument
  • Comprehension: Correct understanding of readings, use of key concepts from course
  • Coverage: Includes all major relevant issues
  • Critical thinking: Independent evaluation of issues according to principles of social justice and ethics
  • Writing: Correct grammar and expression; clarity and fluency
  • Referencing: Correct and consistent format, no missing references or unacknowledged quotes

Submission instructions

Submit your assignment below, as follows:

1. Before the due datePLAGIARISM CHECK.  Upload a draft of your assignment. After at least half an hour (it may take longer in busy times), come back to this assignment and click on it to check your ‘originality report.’  Turnitin compares your assignment to other students’ submissions, websites, and academic journal articles. When the wording is the same, it will highlight the text, and give you a percentage score to show how much of your assignment is not your original writing.  It is now your responsibility to decide whether you have plagiarised.  To help you do this, see ”.  

If you discover a problem, you can rewrite and resubmit your assignment to Turnitin at any time up to the due date.  Your teachers will not view Turnitin submissions until after the due date, so you have time to correct any problems. 

Not plagiarism:

  • Quotations that are correctly placed within quotation marks and have a full reference with a page number.
  • The set essay topic and other details such as your name
  • References (if you have formatted correctly then you would expect other students’ essays to contain the same text).
  • Very short common phrases such as the names of organisations (eg: United Nations Declaration of Human Rights). 

Plagiarism:

  • ANY highlighted text within a paragraph of your essay that has nothing to show that it is not your writing.  
  • Note that in the past your teachers at school may have allowed you to copy text from readings into your assignment.  This is not allowed at University.  Some students have difficulties understanding this.  We want to give YOU a mark for YOUR writing. If the writing is not yours, you should not appear to be claiming credit for it.  If you submit work that is plagiarised, you may be warned, lose marks, fail an assignment, or be placed on a plagiarism register, especially if you have been warned before (more details are found in the ‘Plagiarism Information’ link, on the Assignment Help page on MyUni.


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