Bettina Cass

Bettina Cass AO FASSA (born 1940) is an Australian sociologist and social policy adviser. As of 2020 she is emeritus professor at both the University of New South Wales^[1] and the University of Sydney.^[2]

Bettina Cass was born in Waverley, New South Wales, Australia, in 1940.^[3]

Cass was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1989.^[4] She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in the 1990 Australia Day Honours for "service to social security policy and women's affairs".^[5]

Selected publications[]

• Cass, Bettina; Dawson, Madge; Temple, Diana; Willis, Sue; Winkler, Anne (1983), Why so few?: women academics in Australian universities, Sydney University Press, ISBN 978-0-424-00095-4
• Cass, Bettina (1983), Poverty and children: The effects of the recession 1974–1983, Social Welfare Research Centre, University of New South Wales
• Baldock, Cora V.; Cass, Bettina, eds. (1983), Women, social welfare and the State in Australia (Rev. ed.), Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-0-86861-158-7
• Cass, Bettina; Social Security Review (Australia) (1988), Income support for the unemployed in Australia : towards a more active system, Australian Government Publishing Service, ISBN 978-0-644-05390-7
• Cass, Bettina; Cappo, David (1995), Social justice and the life course: Work, social participation and the distribution of income, Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission
• Smyth, Paul; Cass, Bettina, eds. (1998), Contesting the Australian way: States, markets and civil society, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-63306-2
• Cass, Bettina; Couch, Rowanne (1998), Divided work divided society: Employment, unemployment and the distribution of income in 1990s Australia, University of Sydney, Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ISBN 978-0-9585973-0-2

References[]

External links[]

• Cass, Bettina in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia