Australian State Mandates Gender Quotas on Construction Sites

Australian State Mandates Gender Quotas on Construction Sites
Victorian premier Dan Andrews has mandated a minimum quota for women in the construction industry. Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
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In an Australian-first Building Equality Policy (BEP), the Victorian government has announced that the country’s most male-dominated industry will need to employ a minimum number of women by 2024 or face penalties.

Aimed at “disrupting gender stereotypes,” women now need to make up at least 38 percent of roles in government-contracted projects to help more women enter the construction, infrastructure, and civil engineering sectors.

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Jessie Zhang is a reporter based in Sydney, Australia, covering news on health and science.
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