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Women don’t ‘choose’ to work less – there is no choice

The “motherhood penalty” in Australia is higher than our peers. It’s dragging on national productivity.

Gordon Cleveland and Georgie Dent

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The revealing of the gender pay gap in almost 5000 employers in Australia last week has, inevitably, led to conversations about how men and women “choose” to work.

Women would work for longer if they could. 

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Gordon Cleveland is emeritus associate professor of economics at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and a member of the Expert Panel on Early Learning and Child Care Data and Research.
Georgie Dent is CEO of The Parenthood

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