Rural women need apprenticeship program
24/03/2006(5:30 PM)
An apprenticeship program should be set up to help rural women into employment, Mission Australia has said.
Female unemployment in rural areas remains well below that in metropolitan regions, and as the welfare group's new report highlights, more training is needed specifically for young country women.
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According to Mission Australia, girls in rural areas face many disadvantages when it comes to health services and education facilities.
Mark Herselman, Mission Australia's south Australian manager, said that if these same levels of disadvantage and inequality existed in metropolitan areas there would be an uproar.
"We're finding young women, particularly with young children, suffer from a lack of services in the country," he told the Advertiser. "Young women tend to be more bonded to local areas because of their families."
Anne Hampshire, Mission Australia's national manager of research and policy, said that whilst many rural communities have shown "incredible resilience" to dramatic economic and social change over the years, some are still behind metropolitan Australia.
The group's report is now recommending that a special national rural mental health strategy be set up, and that mobile outreach and IT-based service delivery is expanded to improve services in regional areas.
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