Statistics and Gender Equality - YEA Blog
This month saw the 2010 Engineering Leadership Conference run as a joint venture between Young Engineers Australia and the Centre of Engineering Leadership Management. I’m sure that plenty of blog articles on leadership will stem from it but I’d like to comment both on the usage of statistics and gender equality.
There was a presentation on equality by a speaker from the department of human rights. The majority of the presentation focused on gender equality, though not focussed on engineering. At the risk of misquoting, some shocking statistics were presented: females accounting for only 10% of CEOs, females accumulating half the lifetime income and superannuation, females in general earning less than males at every stage of their career.
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