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

I thank Senator Grogan for that. Just to finish on acknowledging the contribution of Ms Mary Wooldridge, who has led WGEA with a high level of professionalism and has led significant reforms, including Respect@Work, the transparency data and the world-leading target-setting approach that she has implemented, I wish her all the best.

The work that the government remains committed to is helping women get ahead at work and take home more pay, as Senator Grogan outlined. We have been very clear that this has been a core priority for us, in terms of not only our government policy but also our economic approach, and we know now that the gender pay gap is the lowest on record. We know that women are earning more and, on average, taking home $291.60 more a week than they were when we came to government. We've got women's workforce participation trending up at 62 per cent in December, with over 640,000 new jobs for women since— (Time expired)