Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Minister for the Public Service
The Albanese Government is supporting an historic review of the undervaluation of wages in feminised industries, in the next step towards reducing the gender pay gap.
The Government has provided an initial submission to the Fair Work Commission’s gender undervaluation priority awards review.
Workers shouldn’t be valued less because they are women or because they work with women.
Making gender equality an object of the Fair Work Act and strengthening the ability of the Fair Work Commission to order pay rises for underpaid women workers was an election commitment of the Albanese Government.
And now the Government’s gender equality reforms are empowering the Commission to undertake an historic review to properly value feminised work.
The review will look into gender undervaluation in five priority awards, which includes early childhood educators, in-home disability workers, and health professionals.
Our commitment to addressing gender undervaluation builds on previous commitments to our vital care and community sector. We have previously committed to support wages increases, including $11.3 billion for aged care workers and $3.6 billion over two years for early childhood educators.
