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How the jobs summit shifted gender equality from the sidelines to the mainstream

  • Written by Leonora Risse, Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
How the jobs summit shifted gender equality from the sidelines to the mainstreamLukas Coch/AAP

The last time an Australian government hosted a national jobs summit, only one woman was present. It was 1983, and that woman was Susan Ryan, a minister in the Hawke government and the trailblazing architect of the Sex Discrimination Act.

Fast forward 39 years to the 2022 Jobs and Skills Summit, and half of all participants and...

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