Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Prior to COVID-19, there were more women in the workforce in Australia than ever before. The gender pay gap had closed to its lowest level on record, at 13.9 per cent. When Labor was last in office, it was 17.4 per cent. Our ambition as a government is to return to those numbers and grow them and enhance them. That is the approach we will be taking. We absolutely know that we must draw upon every woman and every man in this country in the recovery process, to ensure the fastest possible economic and social recovery.