ABARES study shows more women in agriculture gaining qualifications
1/1/2019<p>Women in agriculture are getting better educated than men, they are older than the average farm worker, and they are veering away from management.</p> <p>Those are the findings from the latest snapshot of agricultural workers, put together by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics.</p> <p>The study found that while the number of women in agriculture rose between 2011 and 2016, the number of managers fell from 41,982 in 2011 to 37,787 in 2016.</p> <p>Women made up 28 per cent of all managers in the industry in 2016, with about half the women in agriculture working as managers.</p> <strong><a href="https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/5827459/farm-women-study-harder/" target="_blank">Read the full story online at The Advocate website.</a></strong>