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Statistics about Queensland women

Queensland Women at a Glance

Queensland Women at a Glance is a monthly statistical snapshot of Queensland women’s workforce participation, pay, education and training and leadership status. These sex disaggregated data (or gender statistics) provide an evidence base for the Office for Women’s current priorities.

Profile: Queensland Women 2009

This 125-page document provides an overview of the current social, economic and legal status of Queensland women, with a view to informing public debate, policy directions and service delivery.

Profile 2009 is the second edition of this publication (the first was released in 2004) and explores trends, patterns and progress made and areas of continuing inequality.

The collation of current data, from a wide range of sources, provides a comprehensive insight into the common life experiences of, and challenges and inequalities faced by, Queensland women.

Statistical Snapshot 2008

This eight-page Statistical Snapshot provides a wealth of information and hard data on Queensland women's demographics, leadership, economic security, workforce participation, housing and health and safety.

Profile: Queensland women 2004

This 2004 snapshot of Queensland women's social, legal, political and economic situation highlights their gains in education, workforce participation, breast and cervical cancer prevention and increased leadership. It also reveals how many women still live in poverty or, with their children, face future poverty.

This data adds up to a human picture, of women still providing the primary care of children and dependents, juggling an increasingly complex and often conflicting range of roles, without an any equivalent growth in the support those roles require.

Are Queensland women restructuring their working lives around their family responsibilities at the cost of limiting their financial security, education and long term financial independence? What Profile unfolds is a contrast between gradual improvement and the need for much greater change.