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Women ‘robbed’ of $321k as they face 23.4-year wait for pay parity

If the Albanese government wants to encourage more women back into the workplace, it is critical that better pay is a focus of the Jobs and Skills Summit.

Bianca Hartge-HazelmanContributor

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If women are the answer to Australia’s great skills shortage, how do we motivate a female labour market to work more, but for less?

The short and simple answer: we can’t. This is why the pay gap must be a focus area of the national Jobs and Skills Summit next month.

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Bianca Hartge-Hazelman is the author of the Financy Women’s Index and founder of the Impacter app which helps businesses with diversity, equity and inclusion. Connect with Bianca on Twitter.

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