Decreasing the gender pay gap
People who support this policy believe that the federal government should introduce legislation that reduces the gap in income between women and men and ensures both sexes are paid equally well.
View on They Vote For You →How each party's members voted
Each bar is 100% of a party's current members in the House of Representatives whom They Vote For You places in one of its seven agreement groups for this policy (its own categories, shown as published). Bars show percentages of members, not vote totals; the number beside each bar is how many members that is. Members They Vote For You says haven't cast enough votes on the policy are counted separately, not in the bars.
- Consistently against
- Almost always against
- Generally against
- Mixture
- Generally for
- Almost always for
- Consistently for
Labor
3 members+65 not enough votes
Liberal
1 member+15 not enough votes
Independent0 members+7 not enough votes
Greens0 members+1 not enough votes
One Nation0 members+1 not enough votes
Nationals0 members+8 not enough votes
Centre Alliance0 members+1 not enough votes
LNP0 members+7 not enough votes
Party breakdown as a table (number of members in each group)
| Party | Consistently against | Almost always against | Generally against | Mixture | Generally for | Almost always for | Consistently for | Not enough votes | Members in bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 3 |
| Liberal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Greens | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| One Nation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Nationals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Centre Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| LNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
All 109 members, by agreement
| Member | Party | Position | Agreement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tony Burke (Watson) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Jason Clare (Blaxland) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Julie Collins (Franklin) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Justine Elliot (Richmond) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Catherine King (Ballarat) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Richard Marles (Corio) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Shayne Neumann (Blair) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Tanya Plibersek (Sydney) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Amanda Rishworth (Kingston) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Tony Zappia (Makin) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Rob Mitchell (McEwen) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Ed Husic (Chifley) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Michelle Rowland (Greenway) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Chris Bowen (McMahon) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Lisa Chesters (Bendigo) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Tim Watts (Gellibrand) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Clare O'Neil (Hotham) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Joanne Ryan (Lalor) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Sharon Claydon (Newcastle) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Jim Chalmers (Rankin) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Andrew Giles (Scullin) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Matt Keogh (Burt) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Anne Aly (Cowan) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Emma McBride (Dobell) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Mike Freelander (Macarthur) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Susan Templeman (Macquarie) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Meryl Swanson (Paterson) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Luke Gosling (Solomon) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Madeleine King (Brand) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Julian Hill (Bruce) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Pat Conroy (Shortland) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Peter Khalil (Wills) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Anne Stanley (Werriwa) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Andrew Leigh (Fenner) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Patrick Gorman (Perth) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Josh Wilson (Fremantle) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Alicia Payne (Canberra) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Libby Coker (Corangamite) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Daniel Mulino (Fraser) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Fiona Phillips (Gilmore) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Helen Haines (Indi) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Kate Thwaites (Jagajaga) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Anika Wells (Lilley) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Zali Steggall (Warringah) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Steve Georganas (Adelaide) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Mark Butler (Hindmarsh) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Andrew Wilkie (Clark) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Ged Kearney (Cooper) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Kristy McBain (Eden-Monaro) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Jerome Laxale (Bennelong) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Carina Garland (Chisholm) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Alison Byrnes (Cunningham) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Tania Lawrence (Hasluck) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Sam Rae (Hawke) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Cassandra Fernando (Holt) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Dan Repacholi (Hunter) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Marion Scrymgour (Lingiari) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Sophie Scamps (Mackellar) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Andrew Charlton (Parramatta) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Tracey Roberts (Pearce) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Sally Sitou (Reid) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Gordon Reid (Robertson) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan) | Greens | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Matt Burnell (Spence) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Zaneta Mascarenhas (Swan) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Sam Lim (Tangney) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Mary Doyle (Aston) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Jodie Belyea (Dunkley) | Labor | Not enough votes to say | 100% |
| Matt Thistlethwaite (Kingsford Smith) | Labor | Voted generally for | 85% |
| David Smith (Bean) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Ben Small (Forrest) | Liberal | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Anne Urquhart (Braddon) | Labor | Voted a mixture of for and against | 50% |
| Barnaby Joyce (New England) | One Nation | Not enough votes to say | 42% |
| Alex Hawke (Mitchell) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Darren Chester (Gippsland) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Dan Tehan (Wannon) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Michael McCormack (Riverina) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Scott Buchholz (Wright) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Tony Pasin (Barker) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Michelle Landry (Capricornia) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Melissa Price (Durack) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Angus Taylor (Hume) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Jason Wood (La Trobe) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Rick Wilson (O'Connor) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Kevin Hogan (Page) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Andrew Hastie (Canning) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Ted O'Brien (Fairfax) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Julian Leeser (Berowra) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| David Littleproud (Maranoa) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo) | Centre Alliance | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Pat Conaghan (Cowper) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Melissa McIntosh (Lindsay) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Terry Young (Longman) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Anne Webster (Mallee) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Angie Bell (Moncrieff) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Garth Hamilton (Groom) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Henry Pike (Bowman) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Aaron Violi (Casey) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Kate Chaney (Curtin) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Zoe McKenzie (Flinders) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Colin Boyce (Flynn) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Monique Ryan (Kooyong) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Sam Birrell (Nicholls) | Nationals | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Allegra Spender (Wentworth) | Independent | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Andrew Wallace (Fisher) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Cameron Caldwell (Fadden) | LNP | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
| Simon Kennedy (Cook) | Liberal | Not enough votes to say | 0% |
Votes that make up this policy
The policy position on each vote. Strong votes count more towards a member's agreement score.
- 6 Feb 2025 · HousePolicy: AyeWorkplace Gender Equality Amendment (Setting Gender Equality Targets) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Agree with the main idea
- 6 Mar 2023 · SenatePolicy: AyePaid Parental Leave Amendment (Improvements for Families and Gender Equality) Bill 2022 - Second Reading - Parental leave and the superannuation guarantee
- 23 June 2021 · SenatePolicy: NoMotions - Discrimination - Against affirmative action
- 8 Dec 2020 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Women's Economic Security - Retirement incomes
- 26 Aug 2020 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Superannuation - Inequality
- 20 Sept 2018 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Superannuation - Gender gap + low income earners
- 19 June 2013 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Health - Inquiry into unpaid care
- 22 Nov 2012 · SenatePolicy: Aye (strong)Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Bill 2012 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
- 23 Aug 2012 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Inequality - Introduce a Federal Equality Act
- 7 Feb 2007 · SenatePolicy: AyeMotions - Commission on the Status of Women - End discrimination and gender-based violence