It certainly does, because those roles tend to be higher paid, so there's that factor. It's also that women can enter into a lot of those roles without some of the academic prerequisites that exist in other roles. If you look at industries like construction and road building and mining, those are really some of the industries where you look at the VPs around the room and most of them will have started on the machines as operators and labourers. You can see that the barriers that exist in those roles are different from what exists in other roles, and they're very highly paid, so provided that a woman has...she could be extremely successful in those roles, and that leads to economic prosperity and freedom.
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