Women encouraged to embrace economics

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Julia Alvarado and Jeanette Lim Source: SBS News

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Since the early 1990s the number of students enrolled in year 12 economics in Australia has fallen by 70 per cent and while it was an equal gender split then, now males outnumber females by two to one.

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