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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * Australia: Women´s in trucks
* Australia - Women take the wheel in the trucking sector
Jakarta,Indonesia -The Jakarta Globe, by Neena Bhandari -May 25, 2014: -- Growing up on a farm in the resource-rich, rugged landscape of Western Australia, Mel Murphy would often dream of driving the mammoth trucks that went whizzing past her property. Today, the 38-year-old drives a FH 540 Volvo truck and is amongst a growing number of women who are boldly entering Australia’s massive mining sector as truck drivers. Accounting for over 10 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), Australia’s resource sector – primarily iron ore, coal, uranium and gold – is one of the largest in the world, but when it comes to employment equality the industry falls short, with women making up a mere 15 percent of the mining workforce. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) labour force estimates for February 2014, only 40,079 out of a total of 271,237 persons employed in Australia’s mining industry are women...
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