Designing Gender Equality into the Future of Work

This project aims to investigate how women and men understand and experience the changing nature of work andtheir hopes and fears for the future. This project expects to generate new knowledge about the gendereddimensions of workplace change using an innovative and engaged research design that focuses on retail and thelaw, two areas where women are increasingly dominant, but which are located at distinct ends of the labourmarket. Expected outcomes of this project include an enhanced and coordinated capacity to build gender equalityinto the future of work. This should provide significant benefits such as better living standards for individuals andfamilies and improved profitability and productivity for businesses.