David Crisafulli announces policies aimed at closing gender pay gap and increasing workforce participation
says it will have two women controlling the state’s economic leavers and bring back the state’s productivity commission if it wins government.
Crisafulli has promised to appoint a woman as minister for women’s economic security and another as either treasurer or finance minister. “I can’t speak on the experience of disappointment, frustration, hurt and anger this can cause for women. He said his economic team would also develop policies to allow more women to enter the workforce, such as supporting businesses to offer flexible working arrangements to staff.
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