Australia's gender equality agency estimates 80% of hospital staff are women.
Jocelyn Hoffman has stopped seeing her loved ones and spends her time reassuring patient’s families thatHoffman is a registered nurse working at a NSW aged care facility, where she says patients are anxious about contracting COVID-19 and staff are anxious about infecting them.
Economist and workplace diversity expert Conrad Liveris said Australia's response to the virus"rests on the backs'' of these women: women are overrepresented in healthcare and social assistance , education and training and retail .
The government's platitudes about valuing essential workers make Hoffman shake her head because she says she has been waiting more than two decades for the government to increase the number of registered nurses in aged care facilities. “I’ve said to [my husband] ‘if we do have a patient then you’re going downstairs and I’ll stay upstairs and we’ll just have to live like that for as long as is necessary’.”“All you have to do is look at the figures from overseas and realise that those people have been doing the right things but mistakes happen in every walk of life,” she said.
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