{"id":414021,"date":"2026-01-15T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:24:09","slug":"lgbtq-australians-face-work-inequalities-amid-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414021\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ Australians face work inequalities amid barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bisexual participants also had higher rates of unemployment and labour force non-participation, according to the study. They were also more likely to work part-time or take unpaid leave. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LGBTQ+ Australians were also underrepresented in various sectors, particularly cis-male-dominated and culturally conservative sectors such as trades, manual occupations, agriculture, and construction. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings show that employment inequalities for LGBTQ+ Australians persist even when accounting for age, education, and socioeconomic background,&#8221; said Dee Tomic, a research fellow at Monash University who led the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monash.edu\/news\/articles\/monash-study-reveals-work-participation-inequalities-for-lgbtq-australians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a statement<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Workplace barriers driving disparities \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomic said their findings suggest &#8220;structural and workplace-level barriers&#8221; impacting LGBTQ+ workers&#8217; access to secure employment. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These barriers potentially include discriminatory hiring practices or workplace cultures, according to the study. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bisexual participants also had higher rates of unemployment and labour force non-participation, according to the study. They were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,5449,15995,22405,44],"class_list":["post-414021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-human-resources","tag-inclusion","tag-lgbtq","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}