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Senator Raff Ciccone became the first father to bring his baby into the Senate. How did it take so long for a Dad to do so?

More than 4.

Just 7 per cent of management positions are part time, highlighting a promotions gap that overwhelmingly impacts women.

Businesses with strong, long-term pay equity policies in place tend to be more advanced and more successful in closing the gender pay gap.

Australia’s gender pay gap has dropped to 13 per cent, down from 13.3 per cent, according to new data from the ABS.

New data has revealed that women working in Australia’s private sector experience higher gender pay gaps than those in the public sector. 

Progress on the gender pay gap has stagnated, with new data showing women are earning, on average, $26,600 less than men.

There are promising permanent shifts in employers offering flexible work, and signs of a growing divide in who can access such flexibility. 

If employers in Australia ensured 40 per cent of their employees were women, the nation’s gender pay gap would narrow by more than a third.

“My question is this: when are we going to name the elephant in the room? This annual “best practice” bonanza is emblematic of the Morrison government’s softly, softly — and ultimately ineffective – approach to closing the gender pay gap.”

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has announced its list of employers of choice for gender equality for 2022, naming 120 organisations.

But women choose to work in lower paid sectors like health, education and childcare! They say, as if that makes a pay gap OK.