Tax, Social Policy and Gender : Rethinking Equality and Efficiency.

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of acronyms -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Gender inequality in Australia's tax-transfer system -- Part I: Frameworks for gender analysis -- 2. Australian tax-transfer policies and taxing for gender equality: Comparative perspectives and reform options -- 3. Gender equity in the tax-transfer system for fiscal sustainability -- 4. Gender equality and a rights basedapproach to tax reform -- Part II: Work and care -- 5. Taxes, transfers, family policies and paid work over the female life cycle -- 6. Paying for care in Australia's 'wage earners' welfare state': The case of child endowment -- 7. Parents' primary and secondary child care time adjustment to market time: Evidence from Australian mothers and fathers -- Part III: Human capital, savings and retirement -- 8. Gender differences in costs and returns to higher education -- 9. Women and top incomes in Australia -- 10. Budgeting for women's rights in retirement -- Part IV: Towards gender equality in the tax-transfer system -- 11. Pathways and processes towards a gender equality policy -- Index.

'Tax, Social Policy and Gender' calls for a rethinking of equality and efficiency in tax and social policy and provides new policy solutions. It offers a pathway to achieve gender mainstreaming for women's economic security and the wellbeing of all Australians.

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