If you want to be the toast of your Australia Day BBQ with a freshly minted Order of Australia gong, your odds are certainly far better if you are bloke.
On data tallied by the Australian Bureau of Statistics over the past decade, men are twice as likely to win one of the four General Division awards than women.
This is despite women outnumbering men in Australia, with 98.4 males to every 100 females.
After the age of 24, the sex ratio tilts increasingly towards females, as males tend to die younger, perhaps due to their award-winning heroics.
However, women stand a vastly better chance in the General Division than in the Military Division where they have received fewer than 8 per cent of the awards handed out over the past decade.
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