In the period between 2017 and 2022, there have been significant disruptions to and changes in young workers’ experience of work and care due to the COVID-19 pandemic, new economic challenges and demands for respect at work.

The Australian Women’s Working Futures (AWWF) Project is a two-wave survey aiming at understanding the attitudes of young women and men aged 40 and under about their working futures.

In 2017, the first nationally representative data set on gender and the future of work was collected in Australia. The 2022 data is part of a larger three-country study comparing gender and the post-pandemic future of work in Australia, the UK and Japan.