Date Time Gender in geosciences: leaky pipeline needs fixing Hacking through the jungle. An uphill battle. Being the Road Runner but on an ice-skating rink. These are just some of the ways a woman’s career path in geosciences is described by those working in the field. The responses are part of a new University of South Australia research project that is looking at the power of perception to understand the lack of gender diversity in geosciences. According to UniSA geoscientist Associate Professor Caroline Tiddy, more than 80 per cent of Australia’s mining workforce are male while just se...