This week’s jobs summit must make concrete commitments on increasing childcare subsidies, expanding parental leave and revaluing “highly feminised industries” to help improve women’s workforce participation and ease the skill shortage crisis, influential teal MPs say.

Federal Minister for Women Katy Gallagher pledged that the care economy, training opportunities and the pay gap would be addressed at the summit in one of the first sessions on the agenda, although she was unable to confirm attendees or Labor’s key policy priorities for the discussions.