No longer just a blokes business: the stakes improve for women in butchery
Richard Cornish
Photo: Janie Barrett
Butchering has traditionally been blokes business. A stocky man with a white shirt, blue apron and scabbard full of knives. But that stereotype looks set to change with an influx of women entering the industry.
It is estimated that less than 5 per cent of Australian butchers are women, and 95 per cent of senior positions in the meat industry are held by men, according to global organisation Meat Business Women.
However, change is coming. Three years ago, just 5 per cent of students at Victoria s South West TAFE meat processing course were female. This year that figure has tripled to 15 per cent.
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Her mother said that model Vanessa was also lovely and did the couple s washing while staying at the venue over Easter.
Zac was likely in Dubbo, a city in the Orana region of New South Wales, filming his Netflix travel series Down to Earth.
He gets around: Zac was likely in Dubbo, a city in the Orana region of New South Wales, filming his Netflix travel series Down to Earth
On Tuesday, Zac shared a post on Instagram after stopping by Jonai Farms and Meatsmiths in Eganstown, Victoria.
The photo showed the actor crouching down near a trio of black piglets, and was imaginatively captioned: Three little pigs.
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