Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Pratt for the supplementary. There are some reforms that we've introduced to the published: the gender pay gaps of employers with 100 or more workers, which is a key reform to drive transparency and action towards closing the gender pay gap and will be key, I think, to shining a bit of light on what's going on. I think many businesses I've spoken to are supportive of that reform.

Workforce gender segregation contributes to the gender pay gap, as men continue to dominate in industries and occupations with higher earnings and women in occupations with lower earnings, also reflecting the historical undervaluing of feminised jobs. So we need to come at this through a variety of ways, including through the Australian Skills Guarantee, through the reforms under the gender pay gap reporting and through our support for proper wages in aged care and proper funding and indexation for community organisations, another area where workers are predominantly women.