The Canberra Times
CANBERRA, Australia — A five-fold increase in the number of women applying to become firefighters in the ACT has been credited on a massive recruitment drive and marketing campaign to address the service’s gender imbalance.
About one in five applicants for ACT Fire and Rescue’s 2016 recruit college were women accounting for 144 of the 802 applications received compared to the last recruitment process in 2012 when just 26 of the 395 applicants were women.
Currently only 6 per cent of the ACT’s firefighters are women. Across the entire ACT Emergency Services Agency, women make up 30 percent of the ranks.
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