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Sara Charlesworth

Researcher at RMIT University

Publications -  111
Citations -  1843

Sara Charlesworth is an academic researcher from RMIT University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Work (electrical) & Harassment. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 105 publications receiving 1583 citations. Previous affiliations of Sara Charlesworth include University of South Australia & La Trobe University.

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Part-time Work and Caring Responsibilities in Australia: Towards an Assessment of Job Quality

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the quality of part-time work and highlight the importance of several dimensions, other than just number of hours, in any assessment of the quality.
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Work‐family and work‐life pressures in Australia: advancing gender equality in “good times”?

TL;DR: In this article, a suite of new work/family-related policies, including the introduction of a government-funded national paid parental leave scheme, a limited right to request flexible working conditions, and the extension of state and federal anti-discrimination legal protections for workers with family responsibilities, are evaluated.
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Developing a framework of effective prevention and response strategies in workplace sexual harassment

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework of sexual harassment prevention strategies along two dimensions: functions and timing is presented. But the focus is on short-term (tertiary) corrective actions.
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Parents' jobs in Australia : work hours polarisation and the consequences for job quality and gender equality

TL;DR: This article investigated the links between job quality and employment contract and found that moderate full-time hour jobs were the jobs with optimal quality and stable employment contracts, while very long hour jobs predominantly worked by fathers showed a dip in job quality.
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Framing sexual harassment through media representations

TL;DR: The authors examined mainstream news media texts reporting sexual harassment in four industrialized countries and found that the media most frequently reports classic sexual harassment and emphasizes scandalous allegations and overtly sexualized conduct, and argued that these media representations limit opportunities to frame sexual harassment as dynamic, complex, and part of the practice of gendering.