{"id":10911,"date":"2021-04-01T03:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T03:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10911"},"modified":"2021-04-01T03:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T03:23:53","slug":"morrison-governments-failings-exposed-as-australias-gender-gap-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/morrison-governments-failings-exposed-as-australias-gender-gap-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrison government\u2019s failings exposed as Australia\u2019s gender gap widens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia has fallen six places to 50th in the World Economic Forum\u2019s latest global rankings on gender equality, reflecting a growing divide between men and women in terms of economic participation, health outcomes, and political empowerment.
\nThe data also shows that the COVID pandemic has reversed almost two years of progress, with women losing their jobs at a greater rate and being re-hired at a slower rate, especially in leadership roles. Globally, closing the gender gap will now take 135.6 years, up from 99.5 years, meaning another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity.
\nGreens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on women Larissa Waters said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cThese global rankings represent a damning indictment of this government\u2019s failure to treat gender equality with any seriousness.
\n\u201cThings are just not getting better – they\u2019re actually getting worse. We\u2019ve dropped from 15th to 50th in 15 years. We should be proud that we remain global leaders in educational parity, but there is no excuse for the growing gender gap in Australia\u2019s economic opportunities, health outcomes and political empowerment.
\n\u201cWe should all be ashamed of this. If the PM\u2019s new \u2018women\u2019s taskforce\u2019 needed any reminding of the massive task they have ahead of them to ensure women\u2019s safety and economic security, here it is.
\n\u201cWe need to see action to reverse the decline. The government needs to implement the\u00a0Respect@Work<\/a>\u00a0recommendations; legislate to end the gender pay gap and extend the remit of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency; make early childhood education free; fix paid parental leave; and make it easier for businesses to implement flexible working arrangements.
\n\u201cAustralia\u2019s gender pay gap remains over 13% and, on current trajectories, won\u2019t be eliminated for 25 years. This gap is seeing survivors of family violence stay in abusive relationships to avoid homelessness, and more and more women retire into poverty.
\n\u201cWe won\u2019t see improvements in women\u2019s political engagement and participation until we can ensure that parliament is a safe place to work, where diverse voices are represented and listened to.
\n\u201cWe know what needs to be done. We just need a government willing to do it.\u201d
\nhttps:\/\/www.weforum.org\/reports\/global-gender-gap-report-2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia has fallen six places to 50th in the World Economic Forum\u2019s latest global rankings on gender equality, reflecting a growing divide between men and women in terms of economic participation, health outcomes, and political empowerment. The data also shows that the COVID pandemic has reversed almost two years of progress, with women losing their … Continue reading “Morrison government\u2019s failings exposed as Australia\u2019s gender gap widens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}