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Figure 8 shows the proportion of men and women with 10 or more years of service for each of the last 10 years. After rising from 52.1% in 1995 to a peak of 56.8% in 1999, the proportion of men with at least 10 years of service has declined to 49.9% in 2004. The highest proportion of women with at least 10 years of service occurred in 2000 (46.0%), having risen from 36.4% in 1995; by 2004 the proportion had fallen to 40.6%.

The difference between proportions for men and women with at least 10 years of service has declined from 15.7 percentage points in 1995 to 9.3 percentage points in 2004.

The plateau for both men and women between 1997 and 2001 is largely attributable to two factors. First, during this period there was a lower number of engagements (and subsequently fewer employees with shorter length of service). Second, a large number of employees were retrenched between 1996-97 and 1998-99, and this group tends to have longer than average length of service.

Figure 8: Ongoing staff: Proportion of employees with over 10 years service by sex, 30 June 1995 to 30 June 2004

Source: Table 6, page 21