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The Bathtub That Contained The Ocean Of Blood!
As I dig around the old Storage Unit of Terror I find a old things from the 70's that made growing up in that decade one of the coolest! I mean there were so many toys, TV shows, magazines and comic books full of monsters that you just about never went without a monster fix of some kind.
This time it was all about the bathroom.
From 1972 to 1974 my house had a pink iron and ceramic tub.
Yup, that's me!
In the beginning of 1974 my Dad installed a bright yellow fiberglass surround tub that pissed my Mother off to no end. But that is a whole story on it's own. What the hell I'll tell you anyway...
My dad called my Mom from a plumbing supply house and told my mother (While she was at work) that they had a Gold Fiberglass Surround Tub on clearance. And the reason why it was such a steal was it was ordered, but never picked up. Now my mother had thought it was more of a actual gold color. But when she got home and saw this in the bathroom she had a complete fit!
Not the exact one, but pretty close!
But for me this new tub became an ocean filled with giant Great White Sharks, Octopuses, Octopus Men, Godzilla and Giant Sea Snakes with one hell of an island around it. Yes I know islands are surrounded by water, but I was turning five and a island surrounding an ocean made lots of sense to me.
Now for a while this island was occupied by a group of brave Green Army Men who patrolled the area in a Military Battle Boat and battled with the sea monsters on a nightly basis
The "Battle Boat Commandos" held their own against the first "Giant Great White Shark", The Giant Sea Snake and The Giant Alligator. They were armed with Anti Sea Monster weapons and their Military Battle Boat was equipped with an Anti Sea Monster Cannon and Armored to the hilt.
But three years later on a stormy night "Octopus Man" was released from an underwater cave he was hibernating in and he was hungry as hell!!!
The Battle Boat Commandos were taken by surprise by Octopus Man and were no match for his powers and were eaten alive those that weren't were dissolved by Octopus Man's toxic acidic ink (Crazy Foam) along with The Battle Boat.
Another adventurer in that deadly ocean was a deep sea diver by the name of Hawk. And he battled The First Giant Great White Shark and the jelly looking octopus he came with for his sunken treasure (But then he was stolen along with his jelly looking octopus).
There was another Deep Sea Diver by the name of "Joe" and he was just cool beyond description! He had a sledge hammer, a knife a treasure chest and a big black octopus to fight. But he also had a metal dive belt and metal boot weights, sooo he didn't see a whole lot of time in the fiberglass tub.
And just when The Battle Boat Commandos thought they fought the worst that the insanely dangerous ocean had to throw at them an even bigger shark swam in to fight!
The fights were far from one sided, there were nights where the Commandos had enough shark steaks to last a few months. And others where the giant shark would eat the entire crew and most of the Battle Boat.
Years later Hawk The Deep Sea Diver are still living in happy retirement in my own pink ceramic and iron tub (Hey it came with my new place and I'm not paying for a new one!)
But they've been known to fight it out still from time to time.
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Watching some Prevues From Hell!
Mad Ron's prevues from Hell, 1987
Written by James F. Murray Jr., Ron Roccia, Jim Monaco and Nick Pawlow
Directed by Jim Monaco
Back in 1988 Tim Ferrante (Yup, the guy that wrote for Fangoria Magazine in the 80's) gave me the gift of Mad Rons Prevues From HELL on VHS. "How the hell did that happen?!" you ask, well I'll tell you.
Back when I was dressed like this allot
That was me in the monster outfit with Writer/Director Warren F. Disbrow on camera.
Warren had filmed allot of sequences for Tim Ferrante's documentary "Drive In Madness" and kept in touch with him allot. Tim even did a cameo in "Flesh Eaters From Outer Space", and would give us all kinds of cool VHS tapes to watch. Well one day he had given us brand new copies of Mad Rons Prevues From Hell.
Warren opened his and we watched it that day.
We loved the collection of late 60's and early70's Drive In horror trailers, the zombies and the interactions of Nick Powlow and his friend Happy Goldsplatt.
The running plot of Mad Rons Prevues From Hell is Nick, Happy and Mad Ron had become trapped in a possessed movie theater during a zombie invasion. But they lucked out where the zombies are distracted by and enjoy Mad Rons collection of Horror Trailers.
Keep em' running Mad Ron there's nobody else to eat!
And there is a ton of great trailers to keep you entertained as well. Like "The Corpse Grinders", "I Drink Your Blood" and "I Eat Your Skin", "The Undertaker and His Pals" (One of my all time favorites) and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre".
James F. Murray, Happy Goldsplatt and Nick Powlow between takes.
And just when you think it's over, the zombies overrun the the projector room. Nick and Happy make their escape but run into a Video Pirate already dubbing off "Prevues From Hell" copies. This doesn't sit too well with Happy and he takes care of the Video Pirate with his own brand of Zombie Justice!
I never get tired of watching this one I literally watched my VHS tape until it broke. And twenty years later I still watch it on Netflix.
Back when I had my VHS copy I used to have it playing in the background while I did makeup jobs on people so it wasn't like a full movie that they had to see all the way through. Or would have it playing in the background while working on props, costumes or appliances at The Costume Shop.
A couple months ago Nick Powlow had James Murray get in touch with me on the phone and I was beyond excited to find out that they are currently working on "Celluloid Bloodbath: More Prevues From Hell".
That's Right Happy, Well be keeping an eye out for you!
My review of "The Janitor"
The Janitor 2003
Written by Andy Signore, Directed by TJ Nordaker and Andy Signore
This was the first movie I was asked to review ever!!!
The Janitor "Lionel" (Andy Signore) deals with his day to day as a custodian in an office building at Generico Corporation. Things like smarmy comments from office workers, abuse form technicians and living in the Cleaning Room would be allot to take. But at least he has his friend, co-worker and mentor "Mr. Grobow" played by Bruce Cronander by his side. And I guess killing about thirteen of these Cubicle dwellers helps keeps the stress level down too.
Lionel and Mr. Grobow had a great friendship until one day Lionel receives a job offer from the T N A Sorority at a local college after a woman he fell in love with named "Hillary" quit Generico after hearing about all of the murders. Andy tells Mr. Grobow about his new job and this breaks Mr. Grobows heart, because he thought they would be custodians at Generico forever.
Unknown to Lionel Mr. Grobow went behind his back during Lionel's two week notice and taken the job out from right underneath him. Lionel was devastated that Mr. Grobow could betray him like this and now he felt he was completely alone at Generico without his dream or his best friend.
Then Mr.Growbo's replacement a young man by the name of "Willis" becomes his new loyal friend and murdering accomplice in the revenge kill of The T N A Sorority and the final showdown with Mr. Grobow!!!
"The Janitor" is definitely in the vein of most TROMA style movies and you all know if it has a double helping of Schlock, Cheese and Fake Blood I am so there! The story line is strong, the movie doesn't take forever to get to the point and it's just fun.
TJ Nordaker had contacted me on Myspace nine years ago and asked if I would be interested in seeing it.
Just another day at the office for TJ Nordaker
Back then I was still running The Costume Shop, still in the entertainment game full time and helping other Indie Horror Productions get made.
The Costume Shop a great place because everybody came right there to network. I would have somebody walking in and saying "I need ten gallons of fake blood or six zombie costumes for movie". Next thing you know we're talking production stuff and I would help that person get actors, costumes, locations, permits F/X tutorials or women willing to do frontal.
Little did I know other people were getting paid to do Networking!!!
I've dealt with TROMA from time to time too, so it was even funnier seeing Lloyd's cameo and finding out later that Lloyd taped that big old TROMA sign on the dumpster! That frigging poster he was using for a blanket was probably a TROMA movie one too!
When I watched it I automatically loved it. These guys had taken the teachings of Lloyd Kaufman himself like so many movie makers now and did it back then! And this was quite a few years after my own experience with a movie production. When Warren F. Disbrow had decided to make "Flesh Eaters From Outer Space".
When Warren had decided to make Flesh Eaters From Outer Space the movie industry was in a huge transition and distributors were only taking film masters. The ironic thing was the film masters were then being transferred to the Industrial Studio VHS that Warren was using and already had the master on! But the distributors want what they want.
The movie still made it to the cult status that it deserves after a great run in Europe. And then Lloyd found out about it while filming in Italy twenty years later, got in touch with Warren and gave "Flesh Eaters From Outer Space" and "Invasion For Flesh and Blood" American distribution through TROMA as a double feature DVD and an even lager following today.
Okay back to "The Janitor" I couldn't get over how Andy and TJ wrote a script, auditioned some actors, grabbed the equipment, shot the movie and distributed it like gangbusters.
After that they promoted at conventions where Costumers were really starting to turn it up to eleven. When Andy and TJ sent me pictures from the events I was really blown away with the way Costumers were simply making due with slightly modified Halloween Store costumes to figuring out Vacuforms, Sewing and all of the new latex's and silicone's. This was on top of utilizing Myspace to get the word out directly to horror fans.
Shortly after that these guys were winning all kids of much deserved awards for "The Janitor". And a whole new crop of opportunities and projects awaited them.
Good job guys glad to see you're still out there and going strong!!!
Are you brave enough to enter Hollowgraves Haunted Manor?!
Years ago I got to scratch something off of my bucket list I wrote when I was six years old, and that was to work in a haunted attraction.
I'm writing this one in the celebration of Hollowgraves Haunted Attraction making it's return to Funtown Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
The first time I had found out about this haunt is when my wife and I had went to Keansburg Boardwalk in Keansburg, new Jersey. It was an Easter Sunday and the official opening of the season. As we were walking around we saw a new haunted attraction that wasn't there before. There's a ride through haunt called "THE SPOOK HOUSE" that's been there since forever, but that's another article.
Photo by "Haunt Space" www.hauntspace.com
We had given our tickets and went inside, and once we made our way inside the doorway we were completely blown away!
We were led by our guide to the houses foyer, where a ghostly voice gave the history of the house and why it's hunted by murderous spirits today. After that a door opened and we walked into the living room and were greeted by the homeowners Ichabod and his wife Martha.
Once they told us that we were going to be there for dinner they told us to make our way to the kitchen, and from there the rest of their home. We did as they said and every room ahead held a different horror. Just when we thought we had seen the coolest stuff this haunt had to offer we walked into the library and thought we were at the end of the haunt. As we were looking for a way out we saw a corpse sitting in a chair and just as we were waiting to see what it did or had to say. The next thing we knew they library bookcase slid open to reveal a hidden passageway!!!
Little did we know my wife would be providing the voice for this moving animatronic months later.
We went through the passageway and enjoyed everything in the second half of the haunt. Once we were out we went to the ticket taker and then manager to tell him what we thought of it. And that's when he introduced us to a man named Stan Ambro.
We told Stan how great we thought the haunt was and how I did F/X work and horror movies, he thanked us and told us how he had started it as a haunt on his parents front lawn as a teenager and how it grew into the mobile haunt it is know. I had told him that I had some weeknights and weekends free and if he needed help I'd be there. He said yes and that's when began my journey with the haunt. That whole first season there I was a Grim Reaper.
This is also when I found out just how much work goes into working at and maintaining a haunted attraction. Doing something like this is a labor of love just like any other art. And it's something that's never done, not in a bad way it's just each year needs a new feature to keep it exciting.
Then the animatronics need to have tuneups and parts changed from time to time or just new dialogue. And when it made the move from Keansburg to it's first season in Seaside Heights I really jumped into the deep end with both feet. This is when I had to take part in the tear down to pack the haunt for the move.
Stan and me before the big move from Keansburg to Seaside Heights
Now Stan is very low key about his abilities but I have no problem telling everybody about them. When I really got to see the guts and workings of the haunt I was even more impressed with it then my first walk through. The Haunt is made up of three trailers with two connectors (Trailer, connector, trailer,connector, trailer then exit ramp).
From this
To this
Now before you have thoughts of another haunt for years ago, this is absolutely nothing like it. The haunt is equipped with a sprinkler system running throughout, heat sensors, smoke detectors, emergency lights, fire retardant coating on every surface, emergency exits and direct fire hose connectors.
And the wildest thing is it assembles like a movie set. After the water and electric is hooked back up, the roof line, wrap around porch front stairs and front bay window are added on along with a front yard/cemetery.
Now for the animatronic monsters. Originally Stan had built air cylinder driven jumpers with lights and actuators. But after he went through a haunt on vacation with his wife (Then girlfriend) he was inspired to build animatronics. He took another look at them and just like that figured out how to create his own! This is what he does, he walks around and then says "I'm going to add this or make that." Then without having to write a single thing down or draw any kind of plan he gets out the welder or other components and it's there like magic, and it's perfect!
The heads have their own unique sculpted faces as well as drive boards designed by Stan.
And he had designed the movement brackets for their eyes and mouths himself as well. Once they're put together they are tested on his workbench with a audio/movement sync program.
Once that's completed their bodies are built with more animatronic actuators designed by Stan fleshed out, painted and dressed. Then their movements are synced to their dialogue tracks. I keep waiting for Stan to make them where they walk around on their own with some kind of heart monitors to detect if their scaring people enough.
After everything was ready for the new season
I figured it was time for a new look.
I had a blast scaring people full time but started to really love repairing and building new additions of the haunt, which was funny because it used to be a chore for me. Then I had the added responsibility of keeping a crew on to be ghouls in the haunt and take care of the business of the haunt on the Funtown Pier itself. The one upside was I had a group of people that loved being there and pretty much worked for lunches like I used to back in the old Costume Shop days (Yet another article). So that got the haunt through most of that season.
Then one day a man named John B. Watt
walked onto the Funtown Pier and turned the haunt up to eleven!!!
He is to haunting the haunt and managing it like Stan is to creating it. Working it along side John was like watching scare artist. He is so good that not only did he make a woman pee herself, she came back and told him about it as a compliment! True Story.
And we had allot of fun times together there. We met Joe Jackson yup, the creator of "The Jackson Five" while he was directing a movie on Funtown Pier and he was nothing but cool. As well as Will Rahmer from the band "Mortician", Guitarist "Jack Frost" (okay so I know him from back in the day anyway) but he was still there and liked it, a few members of "Carnival of souls" and I had to take Kevin Smith through with the house lights on.
And after a huge blackout on the Island where a State of Emergency was called we met then Governor Jim McGreevey.
But the ultimate was us getting to spend the season with Danielle Stampe "Slymenstra Hymen" of GWAR.
That's right, that one is part of another article too.
And we got some great reviews from two
well know Haunted Attraction web sites.
This is Bill and Seph Cherkasky from "Dark in the Park" sitting with Martha
DARK IN THE PARK
This is such a great site with listings and histories of just about every Boardwalk Haunt that ever existed in New Jersey. The link will take you to their review of Hollowgraves, but if you click on the HOME button it will take you to their main page. And you can see everything from photos of the Haunts to their actual commercial spots.
HAUNTFREAKS
This site is a one stop shop for everything from Haunt listings to Haunt reviews do it yourself Haunt instructions.
Hollowgraves Haunted Attraction is currently in storage after surviving Hurricane Sandy.
For the latest news on Hollowgraves days of operation use the link below for Hollowgraves official Facebook.
HOLLOWGRAVES HAUNTED MANOR
And follow them on Twitter
HOLLOWGRAVES
The He-Man Artwork of Chris Faccone!
Chris Faccone is one of my favorite Professional Freelance Artist to date. Now before I get into his introduction let's take a trip back to the year 1982 in the...
Back in 1982 I was twelve years old and had grown out of playing with toys. I still thought they were cool as collectables, but actually playing with them had become a thing of the past.
Well one day I was bored and decided to walk though a local toy store and had seen a display for He-Man and The Masters of The Universe. I had looked at the figures which had consisted of He-Man, Battle Cat, Skeletor, Panthor, Man at Arms, Teela, EvIL-Lyn, Beast Man and Castle Grayskull.
There really wasn't much more to it than a banner, but I thought they were really cool. They were the completely jacked up looking figures that were ready to fight anybody and anything. And He-Man had this kick ass green and yellow tiger that he rides on.
So I bought He-Man, Battle Cat, Skeletor and Panthor. And when I opened them to put up on my shelf I saw that there were small comic books that came with them and told the story of He-Man and his battle with Skeletor. So they sat there few a few months and then the cartoon of He-Man and The Masters of The Universe came on TV.
I had told my friends that they were based on the figures I had in my collection so we were all really excited to see these guys and monsters kick the crap out of each other for a half hour. Boy were we wrong, but hey at least it set us up for the disappointment of the G.I. Joe and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon adaptations of their comic books.
And as the cartoon went on more characters were added to the series and toy line.
It started out with a decent selection
when the cartoon toy line expanded.
And when they started riding dinosaurs
I started to wish I still played with toys.
And by this time they really started adding really cool interactive figures like Moss Man (Who smelled like a Pine Tree Air Freshener) and Stinkor (Who just smelled). I wish I could have been there in the development meeting when they were trying to figure out a smell that was stinky without making it so offensive that mothers wouldn't buy him. And I still haven't met anyone yet that had the tower with the tram car.
Then there was Scareglow and the introduction of the Snakemen figures. The Snakemen were bad ass figures but Other than that I pretty much lost interest in the series.
Until...
Chris Faccone created This!
When I saw his version of "Snake Face" and the other "Snake Men" I freaked out. He did such an amazing job with keeping them close to the original cartoon style, but making them look like they were going to plant a Snakeman foot in somebodies ass!
Then he did another with where his friend Axel Gimenez did the pencil work for Hordak, Snake Mountain and the initial layout. Chris did the penciling for Skeletor and the the back and foregrounds as well as the penciling and inking.
This just got the wheels a turning in my head, I mean how cool would it be if the cartoon could be this kick ass? Just straight up fighting every five seconds because they're all there from their own kingdoms and dimensions pretty much playing a lethal king of the hill. Then all of the characters get revived in their own versions of "The Lazarus Pit" in Castle Grayskull and Snake Mountain.
Then Chris had to impress me again and add the action figure details to his character works.
Like here with "Hordak" and "The Horde"
"Skeletor"
Is a little more stylized after the Collector's Edition version
Look at the detail in Roboto's translucent body parts
And check out the glow effect on "Scareglow"
To see more of Chris Faccone's art click the link below.
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Lola Mae Bressler, 95, of Bowling Green, Ohio passed away Wednesday July 11, 2018. She was born June 4, 1923 in Bowling Green, Ohio to Sid and Helen (Hemminger) Turner. She married Lee Bressler on August 10, 1947 and he preceded her in death in 2007.
Lola was a 1941 graduate of Bloomdale High School. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Bowling Green and a member of the Wood County Hospital Guild. She enjoyed sewing and her time spent working in the Wood County Hospital gift shop.
She is survived by her children Dean Bressler of Bowling Green, Ohio and Diann (Steve) Hafner of Weston, Ohio, grandchildren Greg Hafner and Jennifer (Michael) Curran and great-grandchildren Gaven, Willow, Lucas, Emma and Sophie.
She was preceded in death by her parents Sid and Helen Turner, husband Lee Bressler, brother Leonard Turner and sister Alma Pearl Pike.
Her funeral service will be held on Friday July 13, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at Dunn Funeral Home, located in the Historical District of Bowling Green at 408 West Wooster St. Pastor Andrea Curry will officiate. Interment will follow at Oak Grove Cemetery in Bowling Green. Visitation will be held Friday from 11:00 a.m. until the time of her funeral service at 1:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions maybe given in her memory to Ohio Living Home Health & Hospice.
To share an online condolence or fond memory with the Bressler family please visit www.dunnfuneralhome.com.


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Bills' Morse OK'd to practice while in concussion protocol
(AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
By JOHN WAWROW
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) Buffalo Bills starting center Mitch Morse has been allowed to practice, becoming one step closer to being cleared from the NFL's concussion protocol.
Morse no longer wore a red non-contact jersey when taking part in practice Tuesday, a little over three weeks after he was diagnosed with a concussion. It's unclear how and when he was injured.
Morse was considered among the Bills' key offseason free-agent additions in their bid to overhaul what had been a patchwork offensive line. He signed a four-year, $44.5 million contract after spending his first four seasons in Kansas City.
Morse had a history of concussions with the Chiefs. He also missed a significant amount of practice this spring while recovering from surgery on a core muscle injury.
Also Tuesday, Buffalo shuffled offensive linemen, placing Garrett McGhin on injured reserve with an ankle injury and signing Erik Magnuson.

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iPhoneGlance Games Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is Now Available, What Are the Critics Saying?
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is Now Available, What Are the Critics Saying?
Posted on October 12, 2018 October 12, 2018 by desouza
The big day for all the Call of Duty fans have arrived and people are already playing the game like mad. The first-person shooter is available for Microsoft Window, Xbox and PS4. "Featuring gritty, grounded, fluid Multiplayer combat, the biggest Zombies offering ever with three full undead adventures at launch, and Blackout, where the universe of Black Ops comes to life in one massive battle royale experience."
So what are the critics saying about such an amazing game? See our snapshot of some of the biggest names in gaming.
Paul Tassi, Forbes
Having played a good amount of Blackout in the beta and then some cursory matches this morning, I've already come to a conclusion.
This feels like the beginning of the end for the Battle Royale trend.
To be clear, this is not because I think Blackout is bad. The opposite, actually. I think Blackout is very, very good, and probably the most made-for-me Battle Royale title out there, as I've always loved Call of Duty combat and prefer it to the likes of PUBG and Fortnite. Using it in a mode like this on a sprawling map like this is a blast, and I'm looking forward to playing a ton of Blackout going forward.
So what do I mean?
Blackout feels like it's about to suck the remaining oxygen out of the room when it comes to the Battle Royale trend. Like this will be the last major entry into the genre of any real significance, and then we will approach whatever the "next thing" is soon enough here.
Ben Kuchera, Polygon
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is the most 2018 game release you can imagine, and it might be one of Activision's most forward-looking moves in recent memory. The lack of a single-player campaign may be a boon for Black Ops 4. The final product arrives like Activision's take on The Orange Box, Valve's iconic greatest hits collection that featured both old and new games in one container. Black Ops 4features three completely different games in three different genres, all tied together by "feel" more than theme, story or even time period. Each one can and likely will benefit from ongoing development and new content, but each also shows promise at launch.
There is a story, and it does its darndest to tie the game into the greater Black Ops lore, as you'll find out when you open multiplayer for the first time and get an expository cutscene. You can explore the lore further by playing through the tutorial for each Specialist class. Developer Treyarch hasn't altogether removed the narrative elements; they've just been flattened and spread across the various modes.
Kallie Plagge, Gamespot
While Black Ops 4 doesn't have a traditional single-player campaign, it does have a training mode with story cutscenes based on the characters from multiplayer. Because I played Black Ops 4 at a pre-launch event for these early review impressions, I haven't yet had a chance to try it. Of course, the most intriguing of the three main modes is Black Ops 4's take on the battle royale genre. Blackout is a big step forward for Call of Duty, and while it undoubtedly captures what makes battle royale so popular, I still need to play a lot more (and on live servers post-launch) before finalizing my review early next week.
Daniel Tack, Gameinformer
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 makes a sacrifice that's sure to be off-putting to some with the lack of a campaign, but the surrender of tradition comes with sweeping and significant benefits. Blackout is the best battle-royale experience available today, zombies offers crazy customizable co-op, and multiplayer keeps things grounded for those looking for the classic core.
Chandler Wood, PlayStation Lifestyle
Once you accept that the campaign is gone, you'll realize that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is a game made specifically for the fans. Leaving a traditional single-player campaign behind has allowed Treyarch to refocus their efforts on an even better multiplayer experience, a more extensive Zombies offering, and a whole new game mode for Call of Duty fans to enjoy. It takes exactly what people love about the series and continues to fine tune the things it does best. This is the Call of Duty that Treyarch is known for. The story is still there, intertwined with lore about the multiplayer Specialists, but this drastic shift for the series has allowed Treyarch to pour far more resources into the parts of their game that keep fans coming back. Black Ops 4 might be missing a campaign, but it still feels like the most robust the series has ever been.
Based on the reviews and first impressions above, we can easily say that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has plenty to offer its fanbase and even new players. You can get Call of Duty: Balck Ops 4 on PS4 and Xbox.
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BMW is the only named defendant.
The EEOC suit said the claimants were employed by UTi Integrated Logistics Inc., which provided logistics services to BMW's Greer facility. UTi employees unloaded and inventoried auto-part shipments, according to the suit.
UTi officials couldn't be reached for comment.
The suit against BMW seeks back pay and other relief for 69 blacks, six of whom filed charges with the EEOC, according to agency officials and court records. The remaining 63 are identified class members, EEOC officials said.
According to the EEOC's suit, BMW in 2008 switched logistics services contractors.
As part of the transition process, BMW directed that the new contractor perform criminal background checks on every UTi employee who applied for a job with the new logistics provider, the suit alleges.
The new contractor, who wasn't identified, did criminal records checks on approximately 645 UTi employees, according to the suit.
The new contractor discovered that 88 UTi employees applying for work had criminal convictions in violation of BMW's criminal conviction policy and the contractor told the automaker of the results, the suit alleges.
The suit alleges BMW then denied plant access to the employees and the new logistics contractor wouldn't hire them.
Seventy of the 88 employees, or about 80 percent, were black, according to the suit.
"The gross disparity in the rates at which black and non-black employees were denied access to the BMW facility and therefore lost their employment on account of BMW's criminal history background check policy is statistically significant," the suit alleges.
Some of the employees had worked at the BMW facility for several years, working for the various logistics services providers used by BMW since opened the plant in 1994, according to the suit.
One claimant had worked at the BMW facility for 14 years, and another had worked at the BMW facility for 12 years, according to the suit.
BMW's criminal background policy makes no distinction between felony and misdemeanor convictions, the suit alleges.
The EEOC claimed in its suit BMW violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race discrimination.
The EEOC said it filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The agency seeks lost wages and benefits, as well as reinstatement or "front pay" representing future wages and benefits, according to court records. The agency also seeks an order barring future discrimination and other injunctive relief.
"With its newly issued enforcement guidance, the EEOC affirmed its longstanding position that criminal records screening may have a disparate impact on African-Americans and Latinos, and that arrests alone are not predictive of criminal conduct," said Reuben Daniels, director of the EEOC Charlotte District Office.
"Employers must carefully evaluate the age and nature of convictions when using such information to make employment decisions," Daniels said.


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Since I last updated our blog, when we were flying high with an amazing sequence of wins, we've had 15 runners and 9 of them have been placed, so our horses remain in great form. We took Reves D'Amour up to Sedgefield for a conditional jockeys mares novice hurdle, where she won with her head in her chest. Gavin Sheehan was on board, and the fact it was a conditional jockeys race, it means we won't carry a penalty and so I hope she can win again before we head to the Mares novice hurdle final at Newbury in March, where she'll have a great chance.....so the first part of the plan has been successfully achieved.
Major Milborne made a really pleasing debut over hurdles at Lingfield to be 2nd, and looks to have a bright future, as has Royal Macnab who has had a few little wind problems, but ran a smashing race to be 3rd on his jumping debut. There is still half of him for sale, so do give me a call and come and see him if you are interested in a share....
Jean Fleming made her debut over fences and finished 3rd at Uttoxeter - she had to make her own running, and was still green in front, and so there should be more to come from her over fences. Present View ran a cracker yesterday at Bangor to be 2nd in the feature handicap chase. Unfortunately the ground turned soft and he just failed to see out the extended 3 mile trip in that ground. He is only 5 years old, so we'll just mind him this season really, and look to the future with him.
I was disappointed with Centoria in the mares bumper at Ludlow last week. She had finished 2nd and 3rd on her previous two starts and we quite fancied her chances. However, she swallowed her tongue so she had a valid excuse. We'll stick a tongue tie on her next time, and send her over hurdles. She an absolute natural jumper, and we should have plenty of fun with her. We are syndicating out 6th shares in her, and there are a couple of shares left......?!?


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Gender Indicators, Australia
Indicators to aid exploration of economic and social differences between women and men over time, using data from ABS and other official sources
Next release Unknown
Gender Indicators, Australia Reference Period November 2019
Gender Indicators, Australia Archive release Reference Period September 2018
Women's full time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings were 86% of that of men.
Recorded crimes data showed women were five times more likely to be victims of sexual assault than men.
For the first time, there was equal representation between men and women parliamentarians in the Senate.
Key series and indicators
The Key Series and associated Indicators for this publication are listed below.
Indicators with an update in 2020 are identified.
Updated for 2020
1. Working Population
Underutilised labour
Not in the labour force
2. Earnings, income and economic situation and Housing
Main source of income at retirement
Economic resources
Financial stress
Housing circumstances
3. Selected tables with expanded populations
Key series by Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Indigenous status and Disability status
4. Attainment
Year 12 or a formal qualification at Certificate II or above
Non-school qualification
Literacy and numeracy skills
5. Participation and Education & employment
Participation in a non-school qualification
Work related learning
Starting salaries
7. Health status
Health status (life expectancy)
Long-term health conditions
Psychological stress
8. Deaths
Deaths from cancer
Deaths from diseases of the circulatory system
Deaths in motor vehicle accidents
Drug induced deaths
Perinatal deaths
9. Risk factors and Service
Risk factors (consumption of alcohol)
Overweight/obese
Levels of exercise
Medicare services
WORK AND FAMILY BALANCE
10. Work and family balance
Time use
Providing care to a person with disability
Provided care to someone in the last week
Time stress and work and family balance
Overall life satisfaction
11. Selected tables with expanded populations
SAFETY AND JUSTICE
12. Safety and justice
Experiences of crime
DEMOCRACY, GOVERNANCE AND CITIZENSHIP
13. Democracy, Governance & Citizenship
Non-public sector employers
Membership of Commonwealth Government boards and bodies
Australian Public Service senior and middle managers
Justices and Judges
Order of Australia awards
Involvement in civic, community or social groups
^ Indicates all/ some of table has been updated with new data
The key findings for Economic Security are:
For those aged 20-74 years, employed women are almost three times more likely than men to be working part-time in 2019–20.
For parents whose youngest dependent child was under six, three in five employed mothers worked part-time compared to less than one in ten employed fathers.
In May 2020, women's full time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings were 86% of that of men. This ratio is the same as that in May 2019. This represents a gender pay gap (GPG) of 14%.
The detailed data supporting the following insights are available from the Data downloads section of this publication:
Data Cube 1: Economic Security - Working population
Data Cube 2: Economic Security - Earnings, income & economic situation and Housing.
Working population
Employment and labour force participation
The following data are available in Data Cube 1, Table 1.1.
In 2019-20, two-thirds of women (67.6%) and more than three-quarters of men (78.1%) aged 20–74 years old participated in the labour force. The 2019-20 rate is the highest for women during the past 10 years.
Between 2009-10 and 2019-20, women aged 60 years or older accounted for three of the four largest increases for female labour force participation rates by age group:
30-34 years, a 7.1% increase (70.7% to 77.8%)
70-74 years, a 5.9% increase (4.8% to 10.7%).
In all age groups, except 15-19 years, the labour force participation rate for women is lower than that for men. The age groups with the largest difference were:
30-34 years, a 13.9% difference (77.8% of women compared to 91.7% of men)
For parents aged 20–74 years, whose youngest child was under six years old, only around two-thirds of women compared to nine-tenths of men participated in the labour force:
65.5% of women
94.4% of men.
For those parents whose youngest child was 6-14 years old, the female participation rate greatly increases, though still below that of men, likely reflecting some women re-entering the work force once their children reach primary school age:
The gender composition of the workforce aged 20–74 years old differs across occupations and industries.
In 2019-20, managers are almost twice as likely to be men (61.4%) than women (38.6%).
In 2019–20, the female dominated occupations with the highest proportion of women remain unchanged over the last decade:
Clerical and administrative workers (72.7%)
Community and personal service workers (70.3%)
Sales workers (58.1%).
Those occupations with the highest proportion of men in 2019-20 have remained unchanged from the previous year, though over the last decade Labourers have replaced Managers as the third most male dominated occupation:
Machinery operators and drivers (89.3%)
Technicians and trades workers (83.8%)
Labourers (65.5%).
Employment by occupation, 20–74 year old, by sex, 2019–20 (a)(b)(c)
Technicians and trades workers
Community and personal service workers
Clerical and administrative workers
Sales workers
Machinery operators and drivers
["","Males","Females"]
[["Managers","Professionals","Technicians and trades workers","Community and personal service workers","Clerical and administrative workers","Sales workers","Machinery operators and drivers","Labourers"],[[61.399999999999999],[44.700000000000003],[83.799999999999997],[29.699999999999999],[27.300000000000001],[41.899999999999999],[89.299999999999997],[65.5]],[[38.600000000000001],[55.299999999999997],[16.199999999999999],[70.299999999999997],[72.700000000000003],[58.100000000000001],[10.699999999999999],[34.5]]]
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Data were calculated as an average of four quarters (August, November, February, May) in the financial year.
Occupation is classified according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO), 2006 (cat. no. 1220.0).
This release of Gender Indicators, Australia, uses the population benchmarks from ABS Labour Force, Australia, Aug 2020.
The industries with the highest proportions of women and men have remained consistent over the past decade.
In 2019–20, the industries with the highest proportion of women aged 20-74 were:
Health care and social assistance (77.9%)
Education and training (71.6%)
Retail trade (55.2%)
Accommodation and food services (54.5%)
Administrative and support services (52.9%)
In 2019–20, the industries with the highest proportion of men aged 20-74 were:
Construction (87.3%)
Mining (83.0%)
Transport, postal and warehousing (79.8%)
Electricity, gas, water and waste services (76.2%)
Manufacturing (72.5%)
Proportion of females and males, 20–74 years old, employed by industry, 2019–20 (a)(b)(c)
Males (%)
Females (%)
Electricity, gas, water and waste services
Transport, postal and warehousing
Information media and telecommunications
Rental, hiring and real estate services
Professional, scientific and technical services
Administrative and support services
Public administration and safety
Arts and recreation services
[["Agriculture, forestry and fishing","Mining","Manufacturing","Electricity, gas, water and waste services","Construction","Wholesale trade","Retail trade","Accommodation and food services","Transport, postal and warehousing","Information media and telecommunications","Financial and insurance services","Rental, hiring and real estate services","Professional, scientific and technical services","Administrative and support services","Public administration and safety","Education and training","Health care and social assistance","Arts and recreation services","Other services"],[[66.700000000000003],[83],[72.5],[76.200000000000003],[87.299999999999997],[66.900000000000006],[44.799999999999997],[45.5],[79.799999999999997],[61.200000000000003],[50.200000000000003],[51.5],[56.600000000000001],[47.100000000000001],[50.899999999999999],[28.399999999999999],[22.199999999999999],[50.200000000000003],[54.399999999999999]],[[33.299999999999997],[17],[27.5],[23.800000000000001],[12.699999999999999],[33.100000000000001],[55.200000000000003],[54.5],[20.199999999999999],[38.799999999999997],[49.799999999999997],[48.5],[43.399999999999999],[52.899999999999999],[49.100000000000001],[71.599999999999994],[77.900000000000006],[49.799999999999997],[45.600000000000001]]]
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Industry is classified according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), 2006 (cat. no. 1292.0).
The following data are available in Data Cube 1, Tables 1.9, 1.10 and 1.12.
For those aged 20-74 years, employed women (43.0%) are more likely than men (16.0%) to be working part-time in 2019–20. This is the situation across all age groups.
The differences in part-time working arrangements were most pronounced for parents with dependent children:
For parents whose youngest child was under six, three in five employed mothers (59.1%) worked part-time compared to less than one in ten employed fathers (7.9%)
For parents whose youngest child was aged 6-14 years, close to half of all employed mothers (47.7%) worked part-time, compared to less than one in ten employed fathers (8.7%).
In 2019-20, the average number of hours worked by both women and men working part-time was the same (17.7 hours per week). However, for those working full-time, women (36.2 hours) worked fewer hours on average than men (39.8 hours).
Casual employees
In 2019, around the same proportion of female (21.2%) and male (18.3%) employees aged 20-74 years did not have paid leave entitlements.
When considering all employees aged 15 years and over, women (26.4%) are more likely to work in casual jobs than men (22.5%) based upon access to paid leave entitlements. For women, those aged 15-34 years were the most likely to be employed casually (36.3%). For men, those aged 65 years or older were most likely to be employed casually (38.1%).
The following data are available in Data Cube 1, Tables 1.14, 1.15 and 1.16.
In 2019–20, the unemployment rate was similar for women and men aged 20–74 years old (4.8% females and 4.9% males).
In 2019-20, the highest unemployment rates for both women and men were in the younger age groups:
15-19 years, with females 16.1% and males 19.9%
20-24 years, with females 8.6% and males 10.6%.
The lowest rates of unemployment for women under 65 years in 2019-20 were between 40 and 59 years:
40-44 years, 4.1% unemployment rate
55-59 years, 3.8% unemployment rate.
In comparison, the lowest rates of unemployment for men aged under 65 years in 2019-20 were between 30 and 49 years:
For parents aged 20-74 years, with a dependent child under six years, the unemployment rate for mothers (5.3%) is almost double that of fathers (2.8%).
In 2019-20, for those aged 20-74 years, the underemployment rate for women was 10.3% and for men was 7.2%. This represents people in the labour force who wanted, and were available for, more hours of work than they currently had.
Adding people who are either unemployed or underemployed together creates an underutilised labour force population, from which an underutilisation rate can be derived. The labour force underutilisation rate in Australia in 2019–20 for those aged 20–74 years old was higher for women (15.1%) than it was for men (12.1%).
People not in the labour force
The following data are available in Data Cube 1, Table 1.17.
In 2019-20, a third of women (32.4%) and just over one in five men (21.9%) aged 20–74 years old were not in the labour force.
The largest difference between men and women was for people aged between 30 and 39 years where women were around three times more likely than men to be out of the labour force:
30-34 years, 22.2% of women compared with 8.3% men
35–39 years, 22.5% of women compared with 7.4% men.
This may reflect the age group of women more likely to be having children, and taking a major role in their care, since the median age of mothers at birth in 2019 was 31.5 years, as detailed in Births, Australia, 2019.
Persons not in the labour force, by age and sex, 2019–20 (a)(b)
Age group (years)
["Age group (years)","Males","Females"]
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Data averaged using 12 months in the financial year.
Earnings, income and economic situation
Earnings
In May 2020, women's full time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings were 86% of that of men. This ratio is the same as that in May 2019. This represents a gender pay gap (GPG) of 14%.
The GPG measures the relative position of women and men in the economy. For further discussion on the gender pay gap see the following articles:
Understanding measures of the gender pay gap, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Gender Indicators article, 23 January 2019.
The gender pay gap, Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
The national gender pay gap is now 14.0%, Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
The key findings for Education are:
Women are more likely than men to have attained a Bachelor degree or above qualification.
For graduates of most fields of study, females are paid less than their male counterparts. In 2020, the field study with the largest difference was Dentistry ($79,300 for females compared to $90,000 for males).
Data Cube 4: Education - Attainment
Data Cube 5: Education - Participation and Education & employment.
Year 12 or a formal qualification of Certificate II or above
In 2020, around 4 in 5 people aged 15 to 64 years had attained Year 12 or a formal qualification at Certificate II or above (80.8% of females and 79.4% of males).
In 2020, for those aged 20-24 years:
92.5% of women compared to 87.5% of men had attained Year 12 or a formal qualification of Certificate II or above.
48.0% of women compared to 39.0% of men had a formal qualification at Certificate II or above.
Over the past 10 years, there has generally been increases in attainment of a formal qualification of Certificate of II or above for all age groups, with the increase most notable for women aged between 35 and 49 years:
35-39 years, a 16.5% increase between 2010 and 2020 (62.7% to 79.2%)
45-49 years, a 11.5% increase between 2010 and 2020 (58.2% to 69.7%).
Attainment of Year 12 or a formal qualification of Certificate II or above, by sex and age group, 2010 and 2020 (a)(b)(c)
Males 2010 (%)
Females 2010 (%)
Female 2020 (%)
["Age group (years)","Males 2010","Females 2010","Males 2020","Female 2020"]
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Includes any of the following: Year 12; Certificate II, III, or IV; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; Bachelor Degree; Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate, or Post Graduate Degree.
Males and females who have attained Year 12 or a formal qualification at Certificate II or above as a proportion of all persons for each sex and age group.
Certificate II or above includes Certificate I & II Level n.f.d. but excludes school qualifications.
Certificate III or above
For people aged 18-64 years in 2020, around 3 in 5 women (62.4%) and men (60.6%) had attained a formal qualification of Certificate III or above.
In 2020, more women (72.2%) then men (65.4%) aged 25-29 years had attained a formal qualification of Certificate III or above.
In 2010, for those aged 25-29 years, women and men had around the same level of attainment for Certificate III or above. Women have since increased their attainment levels for Certificate III or above, while men's attainment has remained around the same:
Women increased from 63.2% in 2010 to 72.2% in 2020
Men remained around the same at 62.1% in 2010 and 65.4% in 2020.
Attainment of a formal qualification of Certificate III or above, by sex and age group, 2010 and 2020 (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
["Age group (years)","Males 2010","Females 2010","Males 2020","Females 2020"]
[["18-24","25-29","30-34","35-44","45-54","55-64"],[[27.699999999999999],[62.100000000000001],[61.600000000000001],[62],[60.399999999999999],[54.200000000000003]],[[33.799999999999997],[63.200000000000003],[63.700000000000003],[56.299999999999997],[51.600000000000001],[39.299999999999997]],[[29],[65.400000000000006],[71.200000000000003],[72.099999999999994],[64.299999999999997],[59.600000000000001]],[[36.899999999999999],[72.200000000000003],[75.200000000000003],[75.700000000000003],[63.899999999999999],[50.799999999999997]]]
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Includes any of the following: Certificate III, or IV; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; Bachelor Degree; Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate, or Post Graduate Degree.
Prior to 2013, people permanently unable to work were excluded from the scope of the Survey of Education and Work (SEW).
Comparison of data over time will be impacted by revisions to the Estimated Resident Population following each Census and subsequent Post-Enumeration Survey (PES). Re-basing following the 2011 Census and subsequent PES appeared in SEW for the first time in the May 2014 estimates, but the new time series of benchmarks was not back-cast through the SEW time series; hence the ABS recommends caution in making such comparisons. The 2013 to 2014 comparison is most affected by this re-basing. While this issue may impact on estimates of proportions, its impact will be more prominent in estimates of counts of persons.
The method for avoiding the release of confidential data from 2014 onwards includes the random adjustment of data. Discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.
Males and females who have attained a formal qualification at Certificate III or above as a proportion of all persons for each sex and age group.
Bachelor Degree or above
In 2020, women are more likely to have a Bachelor Degree or above than men in all age categories. For those aged 25-29 years, around half of women (48.3%) and around a third of men (36.1%) had attained a Bachelor Degree or above.
Over the past decade, the proportion of people aged 18-64 years old in Australia with a Bachelor Degree or above has increased for both men and women. However, it has increased at a higher rate for women:
Attainment for women increased 10.7% (from 26.4% in 2010 to 37.1% in 2020)
Attainment for men increased 7.0% (from 22.4% in 2010 to 29.4% in 2020).
Attainment of a Bachelor Degree or above, by sex, 18-64 year olds, 2010-20 (a)(b)(c)(d)
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Males and females who have attained a Bachelor Degree or above as a proportion of all persons for each sex and age group.
In 2020, the age group with the highest level of attainment of Bachelor Degree or above differed between women and men. The age group with the highest level of attainment for each sex was:
30-34 years for women (50.1%)
35-44 years for men (39.8%).
Attainment of a Bachelor Degree or above, by sex, by age group, 2010 and 2020 (a)(b)(c)(d)
8.8 14.5 12.3 18.2
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Around two-thirds of people aged 15-64 years had attained a non-school qualification in 2020: 64.3% of females compared to 62.7% of males. This is the highest rate for attainment of a non-school qualification for both women and men over the last decade.
The highest levels of non-school qualifications for women in 2020 were:
Bachelor degree (22.7%)
Certificate III/IV (13.1%)
Advanced Diploma/Diploma (11.1%)
Postgraduate Degree (8.5%).
The highest levels of non-school qualifications for men in 2020 were:
Advanced Diploma/Diploma (8.8%)
With a non-school qualification, selected highest non-school qualifications, by sex, 15-64 year olds, 2010 to 2020 (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
Males - Bachelor Degree (%)
Males - Certificate III/IV (%)
Females - Bachelor Degree (%)
Females - Certificate III/IV (%)
["Year","Males - Bachelor Degree","Males - Certificate III\/IV","Females - Bachelor Degree","Females - Certificate III\/IV"]
[["2010","2011","2012","2013","2014","2015","2016","2017","2018","2019","2020"],[[14.800000000000001],[15],[16.399999999999999],[15],[15.199999999999999],[15.6],[16.399999999999999],[16.399999999999999],[16.899999999999999],[17.600000000000001],[17.5]],[[22.300000000000001],[22.300000000000001],[22.399999999999999],[22.899999999999999],[22.100000000000001],[24],[23],[23.399999999999999],[23],[22],[20.800000000000001]],[[18.100000000000001],[19],[19.699999999999999],[18.899999999999999],[18.699999999999999],[19.800000000000001],[20.199999999999999],[21.5],[21.600000000000001],[21.699999999999999],[22.699999999999999]],[[12.1],[12.6],[12.6],[13.699999999999999],[13.199999999999999],[13.800000000000001],[14.6],[13.5],[14],[13.4],[13.1]]]
Includes 'Certificate not further defined' and 'Level not determined'.
Males and females who have attained a non-school qualification as a proportion of all persons aged 15-64 years for each sex.
Main field of education for non-school qualification
The following data are available in Data Cube 4, Tables 4.10 and 4.11.
The main fields of non-school qualifications have remained consistent for both females and males over the past 10 years.
In 2020, the top three main fields of non-school qualification for women were:
Management and commerce (26.9%)
Society and culture (19.9%)
Health (16.5%).
In 2020, the top three main fields of non-school qualifications for men were:
Engineering and related technologies (28.4%)
Architecture and building (10.9%).
With a non-school qualification, main field of highest non-school qualification, by sex, 15-64 years, 2010 and 2020 (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
Natural and physical sciences
Engineering and related technologies
Architecture and building
Agriculture, environmental and related sciences
Food, hospitality and personal services
["","Males 2010","Females 2010","Males 2020","Females 2020"]
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Includes 'Mixed field programmes' and 'Field not determined'.
Males and females who have attained a non-school qualification by field of qualification as a proportion of persons with a non-school qualification for each sex and age group.
While there are more women (16.5%) than men (5.5%) with a Health qualification, there are significantly less women (12.6%) than men (25.3%) with Postgraduate Health qualifications.
In the field of Engineering and related technologies more women than men who have a qualification in this field have a Postgraduate Degree (women 15.9% and men 5.9%) or a Bachelor Degree (women 38.7%, men 19.0%). The majority of men have a Certificate III/IV qualification (women 23.3%, men 53.7%). However, men overall have a much larger share of the total qualifications in this field (144,400 women compared with 1,466,600 men).
Similarly, women with a qualification in the field of Architecture and building tend to have higher level qualifications. Of women with a qualification in this field, 23.2% have a Postgraduate Degree (compared with 2.0% of men) and 36.9% a Bachelor Degree (compared with 7.6% of men). The majority of men have a Certificate III/IV qualification (women 15.2%, men 70.4%). However, men overall also have a much larger share of the total qualifications in this field (77,700 women compared with 563,900 men).
Apparent retention rate
In 2019, the apparent retention rate from Year 7/8 to Year 12 was higher for females (88.6%) than males (79.6%). This rate has improved over the past decade. In 2009, this rate was 81.4% for females and 70.8% for males.
Enrolment in apprenticeships and traineeships by age
In 2020, enrolments in an apprenticeship or traineeship for males (13.7%) aged 15-24 years were almost seven times higher than that of females (2.0%).
Not fully engaged in education and/or employment by selected age groups (NEET)
In 2020, around the same proportions of women (30.1%) and men (27.8%) aged 20-24 years were not fully engaged in education and/or employment. This is the highest value for males over the past decade, and nearly the highest for females.
For those aged 15-19 years who were not fully engaged in education and/or employment in 2020, females (13.5%) had a lower engagement rate than males (15.3%). For females, this is the highest rate since 2011. For males, this equals the previous highest rate over the past decade, which occurred in 2010.
Not fully engaged in education and/or employment, by sex, selected age groups, 2010-2020 (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
Males 15-19 (%)
Females 15-19 (%)
["Year","Males 15-19","Females 15-19","Males 20-24","Females 20-24"]
[["2010","2011","2012","2013","2014","2015","2016","2017","2018","2019","2020"],[[15.300000000000001],[12.699999999999999],[12.800000000000001],[14.1],[13.199999999999999],[12.699999999999999],[11.5],[11.4],[12.1],[13],[15.300000000000001]],[[14.300000000000001],[15.6],[13.199999999999999],[13.300000000000001],[12.6],[12.300000000000001],[11.5],[10.800000000000001],[10.5],[13.1],[13.5]],[[18],[17.899999999999999],[18.5],[21.800000000000001],[22.399999999999999],[23.399999999999999],[21.899999999999999],[22.300000000000001],[21.100000000000001],[21.199999999999999],[27.800000000000001]],[[25.800000000000001],[27.199999999999999],[26.199999999999999],[30.699999999999999],[29.199999999999999],[29.5],[26.199999999999999],[28.199999999999999],[29.699999999999999],[27.899999999999999],[30.100000000000001]]]
In 2013 and 2014 education data is restricted to formal study (study for a qualification). Data for previous years include some people who may have been undertaking non-formal learning. For more information see the 'Education glossary', available from the 'Methodology' tab of this publication.
This table refers to males and females not fully engaged in education and/or employment as a proportion of persons for each sex and age group. People are categorised as fully engaged in education and/or employment if they are: employed full-time; studying full-time; or both studying part-time and employed part-time.
Median starting salary for undergraduates
In 2020, the median starting salary for female undergraduates was $63,400 compared to $65,000 for male undergraduates. While a disparity has consistently remained, the median starting salary increased at a higher rate for female undergraduates ($7,000) from 2016 compared to males ($5,000).
The top five study areas with the highest median starting salary in 2020 were the same for both females and males:
Teacher education.
Across all but four study areas, female undergraduates were paid less than male graduates. The field study with the largest difference was Dentistry ($79,300 for females compared to $90,000 for males).
The key findings for Health are:
Women are expected to live 4.1 years longer than men, though the gap is narrowing. In 1965-67, the gap was 6.6 years.
In 2019, dementia remained the leading cause of death for women, where it has been ranked since overtaking Ischaemic heart disease in 2017. Dementia has now overtaken lung cancer as the second leading cause of death (following Ischaemic heart disease) for males.
Data Cube 7: Health - Health status
Data Cube 8: Health - Deaths
Data Cube 9: Health - Risk factors and Services.
Life expectancy
Life expectancy at birth is greater for Australian females than males, however male life expectancy is improving at a faster rate than that of females:
In 2017-19, life expectancy at birth for females was 85.0 years compared with 80.9 years for males: a gap of 4.1 years
Around 50 years ago (1965-67), life expectancy for females was 74.2 years compared with 67.6 years for males: a gap of 6.6 years.
According to Life Expectancy at Birth in Life Tables, States, Territories and Australia, 2017-19, reasons for improvements in life expectancy include:
Improved health services
Safer working environments
Advances in medicine and technology.
Females reported disability at a lower rate (15.7%) than men (16.5%) in 2018.
For females, dementia remained the leading cause of death, where it has been ranked since overtaking Ischaemic heart disease in 2017. Dementia has now overtaken lung cancer as the second leading cause of death (following Ischaemic heart disease) for males in 2019.
The number of deaths due to dementia has been increasing consistently over the last 10 years for both females and males. Since 2009, the age-standardised death rate for dementia has increased by 36.0% for females and 31.8% for males, to reach 46.1 and 38.1 deaths per 100,000 people for females and males, respectively in 2019.
Deaths due to Dementia and Alzheimer's disease, by sex, 2009–19 (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
Reference year
["Reference year","Males","Females"]
[["2009","2010","2011","2012","2013","2014","2015","2016","2017","2018","2019(f)"],[[28.899999999999999],[29.100000000000001],[31.199999999999999],[31],[32.200000000000003],[34.700000000000003],[35.600000000000001],[36.700000000000003],[36.799999999999997],[36.5],[38.100000000000001]],[[33.899999999999999],[36.399999999999999],[38.299999999999997],[39],[39.799999999999997],[42.200000000000003],[43.299999999999997],[43.299999999999997],[44.5],[44],[46.100000000000001]]]
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Care needs to be taken when interpreting data derived from deaths registered in Victoria. As a result of joint investigations between the ABS and the Victorian Registry 2,739 death registrations from 2017 and 2018 were identified that had not previously been provided to the ABS, and which were in scope of the 2019 reference year. An issue associated with the Registry's previous processing system (replaced in 2019) resulted in delays to the provision of some death registrations to the ABS. Whilst these are included in overall total numbers of all cause deaths for 2019 in line with ABS scope rules, a time series adjustment has been applied to deaths due to suicide presented in this table, to enable a more accurate comparison of mortality over time for this cause. When the time series adjustment is applied, affected deaths are presented in the year in which they were registered (i.e. removed from 2019 and added to 2017 or 2018). See Technical note: Victorian additional registrations and time series adjustments in Causes of Death, Australia, 2019 for detailed information on this issue.
Causes listed are the top 15 leading causes of death for all deaths registered in 2019, based on the WHO recommended tabulation of leading causes. As the ranking of leading causes may change each year, the causes included in this table may differ to those in previous Gender Indicators publications. See Mortality tabulations and methodologies in Causes of Death, Australia, 2019 for further information on the WHO recommended tabulation of leading causes. For previous WHO tabulations of leading causes, please refer to earlier releases of the Causes of Death, Australia publication.
All causes of death data from 2006 onward are subject to a revisions process - once data for a reference year are 'final', they are no longer revised. Affected data in this table are: 2009 - 2016 (final), 2017 (revised), 2018 and 2019 (preliminary). See the Data quality section of the 'Methodology' in the Causes of Death, Australia, 2019 publication and Causes of Death Revisions, 2016 Final Data (Technical Note) and 2017 Revised Data (Technical Note) in Causes of Death, Australia, 2018 (cat. no. 3303.0).
See the Data quality section of the 'Methodology' in the Causes of Death, Australia, 2019 publication for further information on specific issues related to interpreting time-series and 2019 data.
Age-standardised death rates (SDRs) enable the comparison of death rates between populations with different age structures. The SDRs in this table are presented on a per 100,000 population basis, using the estimated mid-year population (30 June). Some rates are unreliable due to small numbers of deaths over the reference period. This can result in greater volatility of rates. As such, age-standardised death rates based on a death count of fewer than 20 have not been published, and appear as 'np'. See the 'Glossary' and the Mortality tabulations and methodologies section of the 'Methodology' in the Causes of Death, Australia, 2019 publication for further information.
Changes in coding processes have been applied to 2019 data. See the Classifications and Mortality coding sections of the 'Methodology' in Causes of Death, Australia, 2019 for further information.
In 2019, men (19.8%) had an age-standardised death rate from suicide three times higher than that of women (6.3%). The age-specific death rate from suicide was highest for women in the 35-44 age group (9.4%) and highest for men in the 85 and over age group (32.3%).
The key findings for Work and Family Balance are:
In 2018-19, 93.5% of primary parental leave (paid or unpaid) was taken by women in the non-public sector.
Proportionally, managers are much more likely than those in non-managerial positions in the non-public sector to access parental leave.
In 2018, more than double the number of women (618,800) than men (241,900) provided primary care to a person with a disability.
Female volunteering decreased from around four in ten in 2010 to three in ten in 2019.
Parental leave in the non-public sector
The following data are available in Data Cube 10, Table 10.3.
The data discussed in this section refers to non-public organisations with 100 or more employees. Under the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012, non-public sector employers with 100 or more employees must report annually to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) on the gender composition of their workforce.
WGEA defines primary parental leave as leave taken by a member of a couple or a single carer, regardless of gender, identified as having greater responsibility for the day-to-day care of a child. Secondary parental leave is defined as leave taken by a member of a couple or a single carer, regardless of gender, who is not the primary carer. Primary parental leave is the type of leave most likely to affect people's career trajectories.
In 2018–19, for non-public sector employees:
93.5% of primary parental leave (paid or unpaid) was taken by women
96.1% of secondary parental leave (paid or unpaid) was taken by men.
Proportionally, managers in the non-public sector were more likely than non-managers to use primary parental leave in 2018-19:
Around one in 15 women who were managers in the non-public sector accessed primary parental leave (a rate of 6.8 per 100)
Around one in 24 women in non-managerial positions in the non-public sector accessed primary parental leave (a rate of 4.1 per 100)
Around one in 167 men who were managers in the non-public sector accessed primary parental leave (a rate of 0.6 per 100)
Around one in 333 men in non-managerial positions in the non-public sector accessed primary parental leave (a rate of 0.3 per 100).
Overall, more than 96,100 women employed in the non-public sector used some form of parental leave in 2018-19 compared with just over 38,300 men.
Providing primary care
In 2018, 6.1% of women (618,800) provided primary care to a person with a disability, compared to 2.5% of men (241,900).
Women (45.7%) were more likely than men (41.9%) to be employed and providing primary care to a person with disability.
The following data are available in Data Cube 10, Table 10.10.
For people aged 18 years and over, the total rate of volunteering through an organisation has declined since 2010. For persons aged 18 years and over, the volunteering rate has declined from 36.2% in 2010, to 30.9% in 2014 and to 28.8% in 2019. The decline has been most evident for females, whose rate decreased from 38.1% in 2010 to 28.1% in 2019.
Life satisfaction
In 2019, there was a similar proportion of women (78.5%) and men (76.6%) reporting above average life satisfaction.
The key findings for Safety and Justice are:
In 2019, recorded crimes data showed women were five times more likely to be victims of sexual assault than men.
Over the past decade, illicit drug offences have continued as the leading principal serious offence for women, and experienced the largest increase in most serious offence for both women and men.
Experience of physical or threatened assault or violence
The following data are available in Data Cube 12, Tables 12.5 and 12.7.
In 2018-19, females (4.4%) aged 15 years or older were less likely than males (5.2%) aged 15 years or older to have experienced physical or threatened physical assault in the past 12 months.
However, for the 15-19 years age group in 2018-19, females (8.7%) were as likely as males (8.0%) to have experienced physical or threatened physical assault in the past 12 months.
Victimisation rates - Sexual assault
In 2019, the number of recorded incidents of female victims of sexual assault was more than five times higher than that for males:
174.8 per 100,000 females
34.8 per 100,000 males.
Over the past decade, these rates have increased for both women (143.8 per 100,000 females in 2010) and men (26.1 per 100,000 males in 2010), with there continuing to be a disproportionately higher rate of women who were victims of sexual assault.
Recorded rates of persons who experienced sexual assault, by sex, 2010-2019 (a)
2018(b)
["Year","Males","Females"]
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Victimisation rates are expressed as victims per 100,000 of the ABS Estimated Resident Population (ERP) by sex. They are calculated using the ERP as at the midpoint of the reference period (i.e. 30 June). Rates have been revised with the finalised rebased population estimates released using the results of the 2016 Census of Population and Housing.
Statistics produced on the basis of date reported may be affected over time by lags in completing and/or processing some crime reports. Where offences reported in the reference year are not processed for inclusion in the national statistics until the following year, revised data are included in subsequent publications and noted accordingly. In this graph, 2018 data have been revised to address this lag in reporting.
Sentenced prisoners
In 2019, 7.4% of sentenced prisoners were female (2,117 females compared to 26,605 males).
As at 30 June 2019, a higher proportion of female sentenced prisoners than male sentenced prisoners had a most serious offence of:
Illicit drug offences (22.5% compared to 14.1%)
Fraud, deception and related offences (8.8% compared to 1.7%)
Theft and related offences (7.7% and 3.2%).
As at 30 June 2019, a higher proportion of male sentenced prisoners than female sentenced prisoners had a most serious offence of:
Sexual assault and related offences (15.9% compared to 1.9%)
Acts intended to cause injury (18.5% compared to 13.5%).
Proportion of sentenced prisoners, by sex and selected most serious offence, 2019 (a)(b)
Acts intended to cause injury
Sexual assault and related offences
Theft and related offences
Fraud, deception and related offences
Illicit drug offences
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For the definition of most serious offence, see 'Methodology' in Prisoners in Australia.
Offence data for 2009 are based on ASOC 2008, with the exception of data for Qld and WA which are based on ASOC 1997. Data for 2010 are based on ASOC 2008 for all states and territories and data for 2011 onwards are based on the Australian and New Zealand Standard Offence Classification (ANZSOC), 2011 (cat. no. 1234.0). Caution should be exercised in comparing offence data. See 'Methodology' in Prisoners in Australia.
From 2009 to 2019 the most notable changes in the proportions of female sentenced prisoners by most serious offence were:
Illicit drug offences increased from 16.1% to 22.5%
Unlawful entry with intent increased from 7.0% to 11.0%
Fraud, deception and related offences decreased from 12.7% to 8.8%
Theft and related offences decreased from 10.8% to 7.7%.
Female sentenced prisoners, proportion by selected most serious offence, 2009 to 2019 (a)(b)
Illicit drug offences (%)
Unlawful entry with intent/burglary, break and enter (%)
Theft and related offences (%)
Fraud, deception and related offences (%)
17.9 8.8 7.4 8.6
["Year","Illicit drug offences","Unlawful entry with intent\/burglary, break and enter","Theft and related offences","Fraud, deception and related offences"]
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From 2009 to 2019 the most notable changes in the proportion of male sentenced prisoners by most serious offence were for:
Illicit drug offences, up from 9.8% of male sentenced prisoners to 14.1%
Robbery, extortion and related offences, down from 9.5% to 7.3%.
Male sentenced prisoners, proportion by selected most serious offence, 2009 to 2019 (a)(b)
Robbery, extortion and related offences (%)
["Year","Illicit drug offences","Robbery, extortion and related offences"]
[["2009","2010","2011","2012","2013","2014","2015","2016","2017","2018","2019"],[[9.8000000000000007],[9.6999999999999993],[10.300000000000001],[10.699999999999999],[10.6],[10.9],[11.9],[12.1],[13.4],[14.300000000000001],[14.1]],[[9.5],[10.1],[10],[10.199999999999999],[9.9000000000000004],[9.8000000000000007],[9.5],[9],[8.0999999999999996],[7.7999999999999998],[7.2999999999999998]]]
The key findings for Democracy, Governance and Citizenship are:
Only 17.1% of CEO positions in the non-public sector were occupied by women in 2018-19. This proportion has not improved from 2017-18.
The public sector female leadership representation has improved, with women occupying 48.6% of senior leadership roles and outnumbering men in middle management roles (52.2%) for the second consecutive year.
For the first time in Australia's history, there was equal representation between men and women parliamentarians in the Senate as of 1 January 2020. However, women still comprise only three in ten federal parliamentarians in the House of Representatives.
As of 30 June 2020, 37% of Commonwealth Justices and Judges were women, the highest proportion over the past decade.
Leadership roles - Non-public sector
The data discussed in this section refers to non-public sector organisations with 100 or more employees. Under the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012, non-public sector employers with 100 or more employees must report annually to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) on the gender composition of their workforce.
Female leadership roles in the non-public sector have increased over the past six years, though a considerable gap remains:
Proportion of women in senior leadership roles in the non-public sector, 2013-14 to 2018-19
6 year percentage point difference
Female CEOs 15.7 17.1 1.4 (a)
Female Key Management Personnel (KMP) 26.1 31.5 5.4
Female Other Executives/General Managers 27.8 32.2 4.4
Female Directors (b) 23.7 26.8 3.1
Female Chair persons (b) 12.0 14.1 2.1
a. The percentage of female CEOs remained the same between 2017-18 and 2018-19.
b. Chair persons are listed separately, but are also included in the figures for Directors.
In 2018-19, more than 4 in 5 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) roles in the non-public sector were occupied by men (82.9%). While the proportion of female CEOs had increased by 1.4 percentage points between 2013-14 to 2017-18, the rate (17.1%) stayed the same between 2017-18 to 2018-19.
In 2018-19, the industries with the largest proportions of female CEO's were:
Health care and social assistance (41.4% of CEOs were female)
Education and training (35.8% of CEOs were female).
Between 2013-14 and 2018-19, the industries with the largest increases in the proportion of women in CEO positions were:
Arts and Recreation Services (9.1 percentage points increase)
Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services (7.8 percentage points increase).
Leadership roles - Public sector
Over the decade to 30 June 2020, the proportion of female senior and middle managers in the Australian Public Service has been increasing:
48.6% of Senior Executive Service (SES) managers were women, up from 37.2% in 2010
The proportion of women (52.2%) in Executive Level (EL) positions has surpassed men (47.8%) for the second year in a row.
This section presents information from data provided to the ABS by the Australian Commonwealth Parliamentary Library.
In January 2019, three in ten federal parliamentarians in the House of Representatives were women and almost two in five federal parliamentarians in the Senate were women. Over the last decade, the proportion of female federal parliamentarians in the House of Representatives has increased slowly. Levels of female representation in the Senate has remained largely unchanged since 2012. However, over the last decade, the average proportion of women has been consistently higher in the Senate (38.2%) than in the House of Representatives (26.8%).
One in five (20.0%) Federal Government Ministers and over a quarter (26.1% ) of Federal Government Cabinet Ministers were women, as of January 1, 2019.
As of 30 June 2020, 37% of Commonwealth Justices and Judges were women, the highest proportion over the past decade, comprising 61 women and 104 men.
There are less female than male Justices and Judges in each of the High Court, Federal Court, Family Court, Federal Circuit Court and State Supreme Courts/Courts of Appeal, as of 30 June 2020:
Justices and Judges, 30 June 2020
Female Justices/Judges
Male Justices/Judges
High Court Justices 3 42.9% 4 57.1%
Federal Court 14 26.9% 38 73.1%
Family Court 18 47.4% 20 52.6%
Federal Circuit Court 26 38.2% 42 61.8%
State Supreme Court / Court of Appeal 49 27.7% 128 72.3%
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It has been over four months since the end of the ELI Pedometer Challenge, and until this week, I hadn't walked that much. However, this week, I have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off, so I decided to do some walking. On July 17, I walked to Shiohama (a beach on the border of Yokkaichi and Suzuka) and went swimming, then walked back. Round trip, that was 11.6 km. Then, the next day (July 18), I walked from Yunoyama Onsen Station to the peak of Gozaisho, again, and then back down again (whereas the last time, I had reached the peak on foot, but descended by ropeway car, this time, I went both up and down on foot). Here are some photos from those trips.
I will also upload two more things: my official Pedometer Challenge Tracking Form (from the competition), and my opinions on how the challenge could be improved. These latter two things will come at a later date than the photos.
On Wednesday, I jogged 5.8 km to Shiohama (a beach). It took only 57 minutes to reach the beach/water.
I went swimming in the Suzuka River and Ise Bay (they join each other at Shiohama). I swam across part of the bay slightly outside the mouth of the river into Suzuka City, then waded back across the river to Yokkaichi. There was only one person on the Yokkaichi beach (someone going fishing); the Suzuka beach had four people on it.
On the way back from Shiohama, I found this (dead, unfortunately). It was a kuwagata (a Japanese type of stag beetle).
This was some kind of interesting green spider spinning a web outside someone's house. I kept trying to get good pictures, but that spider just kept moving around too much, busily spinning its web. This was the best one I could get.
On Thursday, I decided to climb Mt. Gozaisho again. I had climbed it before, but it had taken about four hours to reach the summit (in winter, with temperatures of -6 degrees Celsius, when it was snowing). I was bothered by the fact that elementary schoolers used to hike this mountain, and it is only supposed to take about two hours to reach the peak, so I decided to try it again in better (summer) weather. Sure enough, I ascended easily. It only took 1 hour, 54 minutes. On the way up, I saw this Japanese rat snake (青大将, or aodaishō, which literally means "green general" or "green admiral"). This one was dead, but the one I saw a bit later was very much alive and slithered away before I could take a picture. Fortunately, the Japanese rat snake is not poisonous.
This is the 8th Station. Its elevation is 1,100 meters.
This is me at the marker for the peak. The sign, which I am touching in the picture, says "Mie Prefecture Gozaisho Peak Elevation 1212 M."
Eventually, I descended the entire mountain (including a bit of hiking after sunset, not my favorite type), and then went all the way back down the road to Yunoyama Onsen Station and caught a train to Yokkaichi. I had traveled 15.4 km according to Google Maps, though that isn't counting the number of times I took the wrong trail and turned back (I was never truly lost, but I did get onto some trails sometimes and say to myself "hey, this really doesn't seem like the right trail" and then turn back to the nearest point where I knew I was on the right trail), or the 1.212 km that I traveled vertically.
My total step count had been calculated 180,000 steps short! K. James was proclaimed the winner!
It still said "2nd place" next to my name even though my step count was correct and I was at the top of the list! Well, I was out of energy to fight this, at that point. I mean, I had just walked over 50 miles in one calendar day just a few days ago, and just didn't have the energy, between my two ELI courses and my full-time job, to spend on this anymore... I figured, "Okay, so it still says 2nd next to my name, but surely she knows I'm 1st place, right?" Wrong.
So that, right there, was the biggest problem—kids, don't bother to do your best. Because if you do, someone else will do less work than you and end up with 1st place!
The second problem with this ELI Pedometer Challenge was the Virtual Student Union. There was a discussion group on the ELI Virtual Student Union, which I tried to join, but due to technological glitches, was never able to join. I contacted various people at NOVA including Amanda Morley, who basically just wished me luck with logging in, and didn't try to resolve the situation. When the winner of the challenge cannot even log in to chat about the challenge he just won, that's a problem.
I mean, seriously, my photo essay was posted on the forum, and I couldn't even read what people said about me! That's not fair!
The third problem is that the whole thing was based on the honor system. I think that serious competitors in a pedometer challenge should be required to produce photographic proof of their steps. That would help reduce people who just type in a random (high) number of steps. I'm not sure whether any of my competitors were doing this or not (probably not, but there's no way to know). I produced photographic proof for all my steps.
The fifth problem (a distant fifth, this is not such a serious issue) was that the ELI Pedometer Challenge was held in February and early March (i.e. winter). Therefore, the contestants had to brave snow and freezing rain to do it. Hiking in the mountains would be a great thing to do during such a pedometer challenge, but most mountains are extremely dangerous in winter (I did it anyway, but it was not safe, and I ended up with frostbite). I think this challenge should be held in the spring, summer, or fall, not the winter.
The ELI Pedometer Challenge was worth entering. I have many stories to tell people, now, lost several kilograms of (excess) weight, and won an athletic competition. That was great, and I do not regret entering. However, these issues need to be addressed, as some of them are rather serious!