Women in NSW 2012 - The Workplace Gender Equality Agency

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Scope andstructure ofthe reportThe report is structured around fivethemes that are central to women’slife experiences. These are:• Health and wellbeing• Education and learning• Work and financial security• Leadership and representation• Safety and access to justice.In addition, a demographic profileof NSW women (Chapter One)describes current trends inwomen’s age, fertility, family andhousehold arrangements.Key statistics, descriptive analysisand a focus topic of interest arepresented for each theme.Sources where the reader can findmore information are given. Wherepossible, the information presentedhas four dimensions which aresummarised in the box below.The report does not deal withgovernment achievements orprogram outcomes. However, itsthemes and indicators are alignedto the government’s commitmentsto the people of NSW throughNSW 2012, the State Plan.Gender indicatorsThere is a large suite of indicatorsand data sources that couldbe included in a report onwomen. Several hundredwere initially identified.In order to produce a report thatis useful, accessible andmanageable to develop andupdate each year, the followingapproach was adopted:• A set of leading indicators waschosen for each theme.• Where data is available, NSWwomen’s experience in terms ofthe national gender indicatorsseries produced by theAustralian Bureau of Statisticsis given to allow comparisonbetween NSW and Australia asa whole (see the Appendix).• Readers are referred to siteswhere additional data andinformation can be found.Eight criteria were used to selectleading indicators 1 :1. Worth measuringRelevant to servicesand community andgovernment priorities2. Gender-sensitiveThey identify significantgender gaps at a pointin time, and over time3. Information that cangalvanise actionThey inform areas thatare responsive to policyor program changes4. UnderstandableThe data is accessible and clearto a broad audience so that thecommunity can come to its ownjudgements about its meaning5. ComparableComparable data is availableacross jurisdictions and over time6. Can be measured fordiverse populationsThey facilitate comparison betweendifferent groups of women7. AccurateThe information publishedis of sufficient accuracy sothat the community canhave confidence in it8. Administratively simpleThey are already in use within theNSW Government or are easy toproduce from established data.Clearly, it is not always possibleto utilise all these criteria to selectan indicator, but as many aspossible have been consideredfor each indicator.Four dimensions of gender equityThe gender differenceWomen’s status compared to menTrends over timeHow does NSW compare?Tracking subgroups of womenThe direction and pace of progress in gender equalityContrasting NSW and Australian women’s experiencesComparing specific groups of NSW women (for example, Aboriginalwomen, rural and regional women, women from a culturally and linguisticallydiverse background, specific age groups and women with a disability)1 For a fuller discussion of these criteria, see World Health Organisation (2003) Comparative Evaluation of Indicators for Gender Equity and Health, WHO Centre for Health Development,Kobe, Japan; and Productivity Commission (2011) Report on Government Services, Chapter One.2 WOMEN IN NSW 2012 | INTRODUCTION
Data sourcesThe report seeks to bring a rangeof information together in an easyto-useformat. It draws on:• published and unpublishedlarge-scale survey datafrom the Australian Bureauof Statistics (ABS)• data from national specialistsurveys, in particular theHousehold Income and LabourDynamics Australia (HILDA)longitudinal survey• government administrativedata that is associated with aspecific program (for example,the Higher School Certificate,workers’ compensation orCommonwealth Rent Assistance)• NSW Government survey datathat is published, but maynot be well-known to a broadaudience (for example, the NSWPopulation Health Survey).While administrative dataassociated with service use shouldnot be taken to be representativeof a problem or issue, it can shedlight on important topics. Wherepossible, data from differentsources are presented to providethe reader with a balanced picture.This choice is consistent with theNSW Government’s commitmentto honest, transparent andaccountable government asdescribed in Goal 31 ofNSW 2012, the State Plan.Census 2011 data will be used insubsequent reports and one-offresearch studies by Women NSWin the future. As data becomesprogressively available from mid-2012, it will be possible to offermore analysis about subgroupsof women and to track changesbetween census periods.Using this reportThis first baseline report willbe used in consultations withagencies, peak organisationsand other external stakeholders.It will also be of use to thoseinvolved in policy developmentand advocacy more generally.Women NSW will also identifyissues for the NSW Government’sdata development agenda whereadditional sex-disaggregated datamay be needed.It is expected that new dataavailability and user feedback fromthe 2012 report will contribute tothe development of the secondWomen in NSW report in 2013.WOMEN IN NSW 2012 | INTRODUCTION3
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Page 17 and 18: Key findingsAs at June 2011, there
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Page 21 and 22: Fertility and birthsSince the baby
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Undergraduate STEM enrolments, NSW,
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Figure 3.12Women and men working in
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6.2 Participation in adult and comm
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Work andfinancial securityAccess to
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Current levelsand trendsThis sectio
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Table 4.1Labour force participation
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Table 4.4Female unemployment by Syd
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Topic 2: Workforce securityAnother
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3.1 Time spent in unpaid household
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4.1 Occupational segregation contin
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Table 4.7Women’s industry represe
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Table 4.8Occupational subgroups wit
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5.2 Average total hourly earningsAv
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Focus on payOn average, men earn mo
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Figure 4.10Spatial variation of sup
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6.4 Commonwealth Rent Assistance an
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How doesNSW compare?The ABS publish
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Leadership andrepresentationThis ch
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Current levelsand trendsThis sectio
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1.2 Elected representativesCurrent
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Figure 5.3Women candidates and elec
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Topic 3:Leadership in thecorporate
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Marital statusWhat more can we lear
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4.1 Judges, barristers, partners an
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Topic 5:Leadership in artsand recre
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How doesNSW compare?The ABS publish
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Safety andaccess to justiceThe majo
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Current levelsand trendsThe followi
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1.2 Sexual assaults against women c
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Topic 2: Safety inthe communityAs i
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Table 6.2Victims of personal violen
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3.1 Satisfaction with safety of pub
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3.2 Frequency of walking and cyclin
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4.1 Rate of reporting personal crim
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Figure 6.5The progress of sexual of
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4.3 Apprehended Domestic Violence O
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Apprehended Domestic Violence Order
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