Foxy, what are the chances of the Work Place Gender Equality Agency reporting that the gap is reducing and in a few years they can be closed? Or, that things are getting worse and worse and we are working our fingers to the bone, our organisation is down to the bare bones and we need additional funding?
Just asking for a friend.

Another difference worth mentioning.

While Labor has promised that public hospitals will provide free abortions, the Government has been 'called out’ (what a sanctimonious lefty expression) for not signing the UN International Women's Day Statement calling for better abortion access for women.

The child killers say “No government can truly support gender equality and human rights without supporting access to safe abortions and reproductive rights”. Twisted logic! What 'reproductive rights’ do people who do not want to reproduce want?

JBower,

The following link may clarify things:

http://www.wgea.gov.au/about-the-agency

cont'd ...

My apologies for misspelling your name.
It should have read JBowyer.

"The Agency is charged with promoting and improving gender equality in Australian workplaces."

Good to hear.

Here's one area where there's massive gender inequality - work related fatalities. Ten times more men per 100000 workers die on the job, so to speak.

Strangely I couldn't find anywhere on the Workplace Gender Equality Agency website where they said they were addressing that issue. Equally (that word again!) Safework Australia doesn't seem to even keep those statistics...or perhaps they'd prefer to hide the data.

Somehow I suspect that, if the numbers were reversed, we'd find a million articles and untold millions spent to fix it.

The three most dangerous industries are transport, agriculture and construction..industries where men predominate. I'm sure the agency is working to get more women into those deadly jobs...you know, to correct inequality.

But, unfortunately, the problem will never be fixed. Once a government creates a bureaucracy to fix a problem, it creates a constituency determined that the problem remain unfixed and therefore THEIR jobs unthreatened

What 'reproductive rights’ do people who do not want to reproduce want?
ttbn,
The alternative sex brigade should answer this or at least our resident Lefties should have a go at explaining !
I'm all for Govt funded pregnancy prevention, the cost would be irrelevant in comparison to eventual welfare expenses.