America’s ambassador to Canberra says there are huge opportunities for Australia in the Inflation Reduction Act but the gender pay gap in this country is an embarrassment.
shortly. But you said it’s much more than that. To what extent do you think that is a game changer as opposed to accelerating maybe the trends that were already happening in technology and the co-operation?: Submarines are significant, and I think that kind of co-operation, the training that will come, the workforce development, the capability development that’s going to come as a result of that, will build on the kind of partnership that we already have in the security realm.
, how NATO has come together has been something that nobody would have predicted a few years ago or to the extent that it has. I think that the midterm results show that people are eager for a more competent, calm government in the United States. And I think that we’re going to see that continue.
The challenges that we face getting women to stay in STEM fields, not just to enter them but to be retained. But hopefully, this generation is going to keep at it and we’re going to continue to make progress but we have a long way to go. So many more women, elderly women, are living in poverty because of the compounded effects of the pay gap.
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