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Agenda Setting Gill & Colebatch points out that “What terminology is used becomes important because it frames the way in which an issue or problem is thought about” (2006, p258). Examine Table 3.1 in Topic 3 Agenda Setting slides and lecture. Then do some research of your own and see if you can construct a similar table on another “policy’.

‘Problem’ or ‘issue’ that has undergone social construction to define it and promote it. I want to create my own table as shown in the attached file with another policy /issue currently provided paid maternity leave(need to provide another policy/issue and create table).

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Social Construction in Agenda-setting

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The term ‘equality for women’ has become ‘gender equality’ in policy conversation and has functioned to both obscure women as a group and marginalize feminist policy advocates from the policy process. Another example is how the term ‘maternity leave’ has changed over time.

As welfare	‘paid maternity leave is middle-class welfare’	Former Howard Government Finance Minister Nick Minchin (2002)
As for discrimination against stay at home mothers	‘the concept of paid maternity leave discriminates against women who sacrifice advancement in their careers…’	Christian group the Salt Shakers (2002)
As good for the child and maternal health	‘One of the basic objectives of paid maternity leave is to ensure the health and welfare of mothers and newborn children’	Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission ( 2002)
An industrial entitlement	‘We strongly support a national paid maternity leave scheme that we believe should sit firmly within the industrial relations framework along with entitlements to long service leave and holiday pay..’	Marie Coleman, National Foundation for Australian Women (ABD, 2008)
As recognition of women’s social and economic contribution	‘The growing dependence of the Australian labor market on women’s contribution should be met with the recognition that their physical responsibility for pregnancy, birth and early feeding and care should be supported through appropriate opportunities for paid rest in late pregnancy, to recover from birth and to establish breastfeeding	Work +Family Roundtable submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Paid Maternity Leave (2008)
As good economic productivity	‘paid paternal leave is not a soft marginal issue, its’ an economic imperative’	National Secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union, John Sutton ( 2008)
As a burden for small business	‘.. as an advocate for paid maternity leave, I’ve always said the scheme should not impose a financial or administrative burden on employers, particularly small business, which are big employers of women”	Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick (2008)
As for redress for gender inequality	‘paid maternity leave is not about being nice to work women, it is about addressing the inequality experienced by women workers relative to men as a result of childbirth	Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick (2008)

University	Singapore Management University (SMU)
Subject	Health Policy and Planning

Agenda Setting Gill & Colebatch Point Out that “What Terminology is Used becomes Important: Health Policy and Planning Assignment, SMU, Singapore

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