Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women, Senator Cash. Today we have seen the results of the first year of data collected by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, and it paints a sorry picture about the representation of women in senior positions in the workforce. Only one-quarter of senior managers are women, and just 17 per cent of CEOs are women. The gender pay gap is the worst it has been in decades. So why is this government trying to water down the reporting requirements on employers, which have just given us this data? Why is the government trying to hide the gender pay gap instead of fixing it?