Australia is a country of equal opportunity, where women have the same rights as men. In Australia, it is illegal to discriminate against anyone because of their gender.

Ms Jackson and her committee seem to me to have based their argument on a somewhat shaky foundation. If one works in a low paid or casual job, one will obviously earn less than someone who works full-time in a highly paid job. I don’t see that as discrimination, or a gender assumption, just a pragmatic example of cause and effect