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‘Heavily male dominated’: Nuclear workforce has to be ‘more balanced’

Sky News Australia,  https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/heavily-male-dominated-nuclear-workforce-has-to-be-more-balanced/ar-AA1pKlf2 31 Aug 24

Women in Nuclear Australia President Jasmin Diab says a lot of countries are reinvesting in nuclear energy.

“But in doing that, they’d realise that the workforce has to be more balanced,” she told Sky News Australia.

“The nuclear industry for a really long time has been heavily male-dominated, and a report released late last year by the nuclear energy agency highlighted that we need to do more to attract girls and women into nuclear careers.”

COMMENT. Well, there are numerous reasons why women don’t get into the nuclear workforce.

That includes the gender bias that still exists in schools – where boys get ahead in science classes because both they are pushier, and because playing around with technical stuff is encouraged as natural for boys from infancy onward – but not for girls.

But a bigger reason might be that girls have the intelligence to reject working in a secretive, dirty, dangerous industry intrinsically linked to war.

August 31, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized