australian policy online: "Posted: 24-11-2005Pete's Points
John Spierings discusses the main findings of the How Young People are Faring 2005 report
LIVING in a buoyant economy, with strong jobs growth and unprecedented wealth connected to home ownership, are Australians comfortable with their lot?
The evidence is mixed. Widespread optimism about economic prospects is generally tempered by anxiety about levels of household debt and concerns about terrorism. Rising levels of clinical depression, popular longing for a personal sea-change, and a profound incidence of family breakdown also tend to counter-balance the sense of economic good times.
As you might expect, young people share the national optimism.
Recent longitudinal research shows that in general young people have high levels of life satisfaction consistent with previous generations of young Australians. But their satisfaction in life is intimately related to what they are doing as students or workers, to whether they have a full-time job or not, or a course or a career plan that provides direction. To whether they are part of Australia’s economic ‘insiders’ or ‘outsiders’.
It may surprise but there are currently more than 560,000 young Australians not in full-time work or study, people who are predominantly on the ‘outside’ of the Australian economic success story. Most of them – about 330,000 – are women."
Another interesting article to read in full. I came back across this information after reading about the number of women who graduate from University versus the number of men. In some recent research in the USA the ratios are really odd with over 200:1 in favour of women.
It seems to provide an interesting counterpoint does it not?
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So you're wondering why women, even though their rates of educational attainment are better, are not enterning the workforce? It would almost appear that they're choosing to opt-out, wouldn't it?
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