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...