Women’s Work in Regional Labour Markets: Spatial Versus Industry Differences

By Glenda Strachan, Anne Sullivan and John Burgess

The impact of space on paid employment opportunities for women in regional areas of NSW.

The research compares 6 regional labour markets in NSW. It compares industry and occupation for men and women between the regions and within the metropolitan region. It concludes that the labour market for women is more constrained in regional areas than in the metropolitan area. It also examines the differences in female and male labour markets between the three regional types (agricultural, natural resource and resort/retirement) and examines whether the variation in women's employment between regional types is as great as the variation for men. Differences between metropolitan and non-metropolitan are pervasive regardless of industry differences between regions.

(Labour and Industry; vol. 13, no 2, December 2002)