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

I thank Senator Pratt for the supplementary. As everyone in this place knows, we will be reporting at an employer level on the gender pay gap next year, with those results available early next year. That will shine a real light on the gender pay gap and provide some transparency for employees and other employers as well. In terms of what's driving the closure of the gender pay gap, increased numbers of women in management positions are helping to close it. Workforce composition, the flexibility to manage work and care, and women's representation in leadership and senior roles underpin efforts to close the gender pay gap, but progress is still too slow. We have to keep working to address it.

Some of our initiatives—domestic violence leave entitlements, gender targets in our Skills Guarantee and supporting pay increases in feminised aged-care sectors—are all connected efforts that go to closing the gender pay gap, valuing women's work and supporting women's economic equality.