Women
New work rights that boost women's wages mean that the gender pay gap is now closing more than three times faster, than it did, under the previous Coalition Governments. (1)
20 reasons why we can’t risk Dutton
Progress on closing the gender pay gap has not happened by accident – it is a direct result of the wage reforms introduced by the Albanese Government.
The Coalition’s Members of Parliament are 80% men – it’s no wonder they voted against nearly every single reform that supports fairer pay for women:
- Gender Equality as a new Object of the Fair Work Act
- Strong recent increases in minimum and award wages
- Removing caps on public sector pay and bargaining
- Equal pay for workers in aged care
- Equal pay for early childhood education and care workers
- Further progress towards equal pay across the Award system
- Multi-employer bargaining
- Stronger jobs market for women
- Strengthened rights to flexible work (like working from home)
- Ten days paid family and domestic violence leave
- Improved childcare subsidies
- Stronger protections against insecure work: fixed term contracts and casual work
- Improved Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave
- Stronger rights to work from home
- Fairer rules around part time work
- A ban on pay secrecy clauses in employment contracts
- Stronger rules for company reporting on their gender pay gaps
- Stronger laws to combat sexual harassment at work
- Costs protection for claimants challenging discrimination and harassment at work
- Whole of government approach to gender equality
Reforms like strengthening the right to flexible work, such as working from home. These new rights have boosted employment for women with caring responsibilities. (2)
Peter Dutton has no plan to make working life easier for women, or to close the gender pay gap.
