{"id":8331,"date":"2016-04-07T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T00:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:19:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:19:47","slug":"senator-michaelia-cashs-commitment-to-greater-equality-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2016\/04\/07\/senator-michaelia-cashs-commitment-to-greater-equality-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Michaelia Cash\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commitment to greater equality for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Befitting her position as the Federal Minister for Women, Senator Michaelia Cash affirmed her commitment to boosting the participation of women in the workforce and to reducing the gender pay gap in a broad ranging interview in the latest edition of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/category\/journals\/workplace-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Workplace Review<\/a><\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westlaw.com.au\/maf\/api\/tocLocatorVM?ndd=1&amp;qlink-label=No+1%2C+2016&amp;stid=std-anz-tocbrowse&amp;originates-from-link=false&amp;ao=o.AUNZ_AU_JOURNALS_TOC%7C%7CI20307af9d07411e5b852c5e14c55196a&amp;ntocview=I20307af9d07411e5b852c5e14c55196a&amp;dsu=AUNZ_AU_JLWORKPLC&amp;sortid=Citation&amp;tocguid=AUNZ_AU_JOURNALS_TOC%7C%7CI20307af9d07411e5b852c5e14c55196a&amp;searchds=AUNZ_SEARCHALL&amp;productAO=AUNZ_TOC%7C%7CanzjourAUworkplacerev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summer 2016, Vol 7 Pt 1<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Senator also spoke of the need to encourage young women to pursue science and technology-related (STEM) education \u00e2\u20ac\u0153as this will be where many of the jobs of the future exist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. This is perhaps not unsurprising in view of the Government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s announced increase in defence expenditure with its particular focus on developing Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s science and technology industries.<\/p>\n<p>As well as developments in the industrial relations arena (she is also Minister for Employment), the Senator addressed the China\u00e2\u20ac\u201cAustralia Free Trade Agreement and provided an insight into her formative influences, including her family, education, and legal career before entering politics.<\/p>\n<p>The interview with Senator Michaelia Cash is also\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/insight.thomsonreuters.com.au\/senator-cash-workplace-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now available<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/insight.thomsonreuters.com.au\/about-legal-insight\/\">\u00c2\u00a0<em>Legal Insight<\/em><\/a>, a \u00c2\u00a0Thomson Reuters\u00c2\u00a0online space for legal professionals to discover intelligent information and best practice. 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The Senator also spoke of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,161],"tags":[7705,7706,7707,7314,7708,7709,333],"class_list":["post-8331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals","category-workplace-review","tag-china-australia-free-trade-agreement","tag-gender-pay-gap","tag-legal-insight","tag-senator-michaelia-cash","tag-stem","tag-women-in-the-workforce","tag-workplace-review-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}