Women s Work And The Gender Implications Of Australia

According to a news article from The Age (2015), it reported that Australian job market have seen the rise of men working in roles that have been traditionally considered ‘women’s work’, such as Ballet, a team of Ballet dancers in Melbourne’s Southbank is composed by 30 males and 38 females. It is no surprise that the identities and statuses of young people in Australia are more complex contemporarily, unlike the past that young people may have the fixed role on the society and the gender implications in the workplace. According to the data from Australian Bureau of Statistics (2015), it showed that men make up about 10 per cent of nurse in Australia, male student account for 16 per cent of student at Sydney Nursing School. Welch (2007)†¦show more content†¦Wyn (2011) noted that young people are faced with the erosion of traditional social structure, which means the contemporary young people are not prevailingly concentrated on family, work and wel fare state. Wyn further explained that thanks to the distinctive social and economy circumstances in post-1970 generation, some of the young people left school and worked in an early age. Granted young people finished high school or university in post-1970 generation, they might not find the jobs that were related to their academic backgrounds. Wyn (2011) pointed out that half of the post-1970 generation did not find themselves in a job that directly related to their careers. Moreover, the traditional ambition in workplace is ‘upward mobility’, most young peoples preferred to get a steady job and the mobility of changing work type is low. Along with the demand of society and the social structure is changing, the work type for young people are more diverse and emphasize the individualization. Lawrence (1998) stated that the contemporary young people are trying out various types of relationship and multiple forms of the selves that they may become. Therefore, it is no dou bt that the contemporary young people might not have a fixed and particular job. According to a survey from Wyn (2011), there are 18%of young people holding one job, 61% holding between two