The female tradie shortage: why real change requires a major cultural shift
- Written by Donna Bridges, Lecture of sociology, Charles Sturt University
Women make up just 1% of the workforce in the construction, engineering and automotive trades in Australia.Shutterstock
The number of women in the manual trades in Australia has barely budged in the last 20 years. While lower-skilled and lower-paid jobs like hairdressing have increased the number of women being employed, manual trades like...
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