Equity and Access

Published in the Research School of Physics Event Horizon
Vol43 Issue10 27–31 March 2017

From the RSPE Equity and Access Committee:

Sex segregation set to get worse, says RBA chief economist

Australia's workforce is sharply divided on the basis of sex and is set to get even more-so as young men and women defy expectations and increasingly self-select into traditional fields of study.

The proportion of women pursuing tertiary studies in traditionally "female" or "caring" fields such as education, health and hospitality has climbed since 2000 while the proportion of men studying science and information technology has soared.

"The sex-segregation has, if anything, become more stark," the Reserve Bank's first female chief economist, Luci Ellis, told a gathering to launch a new network of female economists in Parliament House on Monday.

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