Gender Indicators, Australia, September 2017 (cat. no. 4125.0) Family and Community Statistics team Household Characteristics and Reporting Section

Acknowledgement of country We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia, and their continuing connection to land, sea and community, to pay respect to them and their cultures, and to elders both past and present. We would also like to acknowledge the Ngunnawal people, the custodians of the land we are meeting on here today.

Overview Gender Indicators What’s in it? What’s new? What’s news? What’s happening next?

Gender Indicators – what’s in it? This issue has: 150 indicators 13 data cubes 157 tables Insights pages per domain showing brief data analyses Estimates data for many tables instead of just proportions Economic Security Education Health Work and Family Balance Safety and Justice Democracy, Governance and Citizenship

What’s new? 72 tables have been updated with the latest data Time series tables restricted to 11 time points 3 new tables have been added as a result of our GSAG consultation: Parental leave in the non-public sector, sourced from WGEA Life satisfaction sourced from the 2014 General Social Survey Participation in civic, political and community support groups, also from the 2014 GSS More analysis Analyses in the Insights pages for each domain have been expanded to look at some of the why’s instead of just the what’s. A new Selected Highlights page has been added, pulling together key insights from each domain into one place

What’s news? While over 80% of Australian men and women reported they were satisfied with their lives, there are significant differences in their health, social and economic characteristics, and their work and family balance. Economic Security Women trail men in three key measures related to economic security. Employment: Fewer women are in the labour force than men, and those in the labour force are more likely to be in part-time and casual employment, and more likely to be under-employed than men. Income: women earn less overall, averaging a rate ratio of .89 of male earnings (non-managerial adult hourly ordinary time cash earnings). Wealth: women have much less superannuation than men, however rates of home ownership are similar.

What’s news? Education Overall women participate more in education. More women than men attain a bachelor degree, with many more qualifying in management, while men dominate in architecture and engineering degrees. Female graduates earn less than male graduates overall, with median starting salaries of $56k and $60k respectively, and they earn less in 16 out of 19 key industries.

What’s news? Health On average, women live longer than men (84.5 years compared to 80.5 years) and have lower rates of risk factors. Risky levels of drinking are dropping for both men and women, but men are still twice as likely to exceed the drinking guidelines as women. Fewer men and women are smoking overall, but again, men are more likely to smoke than women. While men are much more likely to be overweight, levels of obesity are similar for men and women. Women of all ages are more likely to be sedentary. Women are slightly more likely to suffer from mental or behavioural conditions, with young women having twice the rate of reported anxiety of young men. However, men are more than three times as likely to take their own lives. While the most common cause of death for both women and men is ischaemic heart disease, which is declining, death rates for dementia are increasing and are higher for women.

What’s news? Work and Family Balance Women are still the primary carers in Australia. Twice as many women as men provide primary care to a person with a disability, and of these women, 13% are employed full-time, 27% part-time, and 57% are not in the labour force. Almost all primary parental care leave, for non-public sector employees, was taken by women. Women employees in all sectors, however, were slightly more likely than men to be employed with no leave entitlements. While men and women averaged the same hours for paid and unpaid work overall, men spent twice as long as women in employment related activities and women spent twice as long as men in unpaid work (particularly domestic activities and child care).

What’s news? Crime and Justice While men and women experience similar rates of physical or threatened violence, women are nearly five times as likely to be sexually assaulted. The imprisonment rate for men is over ten times that of women. Democracy, Governance and Citizenship While women are participating more in education, particularly tertiary education, they are under-represented on boards, as CEOs, ministers and parliamentarians, judges and justices. There has been an increase in female appointments in the senior executive service of the Australian Public Service (an increase of 8% to 43% over the past decade). There has also been an increase of 19% for female Federal Circuit Court Judges over this time, from 23% to 42%.

What’s happening next? We will be doing a mini-release of GI in November to include data from the HES and SIH publications that we weren’t able to incorporate into this issue, as well as some Housing data In this mini release, we are planning to change the new collected highlights page to a graphics page, like this one recently released for an ACLD/SSRI publication:

Discussion Any questions?