IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/20315_15.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The devil is in the detail: how neoliberal design limited the successful impact of pay equity policy in New Zealand

In: Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment

Author

Listed:
  • Katherine Ravenswood

Abstract

Persistent gender inequity is entrenched in the New Zealand public sector. This is more so for outsourced occupations such as health care assistants in aged care. Following a neoliberal approach to the State sector, care and support work has increasingly been outsourced to private providers, distancing the State from its role as employer of the feminised workforce. This has resulted in poor work conditions for these workers. Workers and their unions challenged the inequity for aged care workers, resulting in new legislation that prescribed higher wages and training opportunities. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative research into the impact of the Care and Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlement Act 2017, this chapter illustrates some of the ‘unintended’ negative consequences of the Act and argues that they are the intended result of a neoliberal approach to the role of the State in public sector employment.

Suggested Citation

  • Katherine Ravenswood, 2023. "The devil is in the detail: how neoliberal design limited the successful impact of pay equity policy in New Zealand," Chapters, in: Hazel Conley & Paula Koskinen Sandberg (ed.), Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment, chapter 15, pages 194-205, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20315_15
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781800378230/9781800378230.00024.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20315_15. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.