Ms Eileen Bentley:

We reviewed all of our services to see the male-female breakdown in take-up, and discovered it was pretty much 50:50 across the board. The one area that has a higher participation by women is the fellowship programme. It is our international export programme, in which we place graduates into export markets. To return to the last point made by the Senator, we were able to place those women because women and girls have a higher rate of language skills. About 65% of our participants are female, and traditionally women have stronger language skills.