Professor Janeen Baxter

Professor Janeen Baxter

Position:

ARC Professorial Fellow, Sociology

Contact Details:

Room 828, Michie Building (9)
Telephone: (07) 3365 2871    Facsimile: (07) 3365 1544
Email: j.baxter@uq.edu.au

Qualifications:

BA - Hons (Sociology) Australian National University
MA (Sociology) Australian National University
PhD (Sociology) University of Queensland

Professional activities:

Fellow – Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Member - The Australian Sociological Association
Member - The American Sociological Association
Member - The British Sociological Association
Member - The International Sociological Association, Research Committee 28(Social Stratification and Mobility)
Member - Population Association of America

Background:

ARC Professorial Fellow, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, 2009 -
Professor, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, 2005 - 2008
Associate Professor, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, 2000 - 2004
Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Tasmania, 1998 - 2000
Fellow, R.S.S.S., Australian National University, 1995 - 1997

Research interests:

• Families and households
• Gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work
• Transitions over the life course (NLC Project) 

Representative publications:

Baxter, J., Hewitt, B., and Western, M. (In Press) "Domestic Outsourcing: Choice and Constraint in Hiring Household Help." Feminist Economics.

Buchler, S., Haynes, M., and Baxter J. (Forthcoming) "Casual Employment in Australia: The Influence of Employment Contract on Financial Well-Being." Journal of Sociology.

Baxter, J., Hewitt, B., and Haynes, M. (2008) "Life course transitions and housework: Marriage, parenthood and time on housework." Journal of Marriage and Family, 70:259-272.

Van Gellecum, Y. R., Baxter, J., and Western, M. C. (2008) "Neoliberalism, Gender Inequality and the Australian Labour Market." Journal of Sociology, 44(1):45-63.

Western, M., Baxter, J., Pakulski, J., Tranter, B., Western, J., van Egmond M., Chesters, J., Hosking, A., O'Flaherty, M., and van Gellecum, Y. (2007) "Neoliberalism, Inequality and Politics: the Changing Face of Australia." Australian Journal of Social Issues, 42(3):401-418.

Western, M., Baxter, J., and Chesters, J. (2007). “How are Families Managing?” In Denemark, D., Meagher, G., Phillips, T., and Western M., Australian Social Attitudes 2. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Western, M., and Baxter, J. (2007). Class and Inequality in Australia. In J. Germov and M. Poole (Ed.), Public sociology: an Introduction to Australia Society (pp. 215-236) Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Hewitt, B., Western, M. and Baxter, J. (2006) "Who Decides? The Social Characteristics of Who Initiates Marital Separation." Journal of Marriage and Family, 68(5):1165-1177.

Hewitt, B., Baxter, J. and Western, M. (2006) "Family, work and health - The impact of marriage, parenthood and employment on self-reported health of Australian men and women." Journal of Sociology, 42(1):61-78.

Western, M., Hewitt, B., and Baxter, J. (2005) "Marriage and Money: Variations across the Earnings Distribution." Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 8(2):163-179.

Baxter, J., Hewitt, B., and Western, M. (2005) "Post Familial Families and the Domestic Division of Labour." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 36(4):583-600.

Hewitt, B., Baxter, J., and Western, M. (2005) "Marriage breakdown in Australia - The social correlates of separation and divorce." Journal of Sociology, 41(2):163-183.

Baxter, J. (2005) "To marry or not to marry: marital status and the household division of labour." Journal of Family Issues, 26(3):300-321.

Baxter, J. (2005) "Male Breadwinners and White Australians: The Role of Employment and Immigration Policies in Shaping Domestic Labour Patterns in Australia." In S. Huang, B. Yeoh and N. Abdul Rahman (Ed.), Asian Women as Transnational Domestic Workers (pp. 380-394). Singapore: Marshal Cavendish Academic.
 

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