Precarity; what does it mean? Why are so many women, particularly older women, living in it in a country as wealthy as Australia?

Precarity means living in a state of insecurity, worry or stress; it means there is no back-up plan. It means when you need a medical procedure you always have to remind your GP you need it bulk-billed and seeing a specialist is always now through the public system.

So far it’s worked out, but I have no choice at all. It means thinking with extra care about everything you do. Precarity can happen so easily to anyone but it happens a lot to women who have spent their lives caring for others.

It happened to me.

Read full article here from the Guardian