Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Waters, you and I are going to agree on something: the evidence does show that boards that have gender diversity and in particular gender balance in relation to men and women do perform better than boards that do not. I would hope that that is a very clear indication to both the public sector and the private sector that we need to do more to get women on boards. The government is committed to the 40:40:20 target in relation to the number of women on government boards. As I said in response to my question to Senator O'Sullivan, just recently the Prime Minister and I relaunched the BoardLinks program. We have actually moved BoardLinks from the Department of Finance into the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet so we have a whole-of-government approach to appointing more women to boards.