Girls on the margins
Teenage girls who leave school as young as 15 are significantly more disadvantaged in the labour market than young men who leave school early, a UniSA study shows.
The young women represent a large and often overlooked proportion of the 8.3 per cent of young people up to the age of 24 years who experience serious economic disadvantage relative to other young people because of limited education, no post-school qualification and lack of employment opportunities, according to Professor Alison Mackinnon, Foundation Director of UniSA’s Hawke Research Institute.
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