Valuable Charities, Invaluable Women

ISBN-13: 9783639161250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 268 str.

Lucy Morris

Opis

Charities and nonprofit(NP)organisations are an accepted feature of Australian civil society. In 2006-07 it was estimated there were 700,000 in the nonprofit sector. The most economically significant NPs employed 995,000 people. In 2008, 87% of these were women. This workforce gender profile has not changed throughout the sectorys history and it has significant implications for how care work is conceptualised, valued and included in broader society, politically, economically and culturally. This is a feminist critique of womens experience of working in charities. It explores the Australian context, feminist philosophy, ethics, leadership, spirituality, power and business reality of charitable work as womens work; with its impact on the recipients of charitable services. This book offers an interpretation of the underlying assumptions of Australian charities philosophical constructs, the different role they hold in society and a feminist perspective of the womens experience who work within them. Anyone who works with charities or is researching the sector and its contribution to Australian life will be interested in the book

O autorze

Dr C. Lucy Morris, Ph.D., M.Phil., B.A. Theology; doctoral
research in the integration of leadership, ethics, values and
spirituality in NGOs at Curtin University of Technology, Western
Australia. Chief Executive Officer, Baptistcare, a human
services charity in Western Australia.