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"The reality is, particularly with mothers having children later, women who are leaving the workforce to have children are a highly skilled and experienced group," he stressed.

The Federal Opposition recently gave the green signal to plans that give working couples a right to take up to two years' unpaid parental leave one year each. Under the policy, parents of preschool children would also gain a right to ask their employer to provide more flexible working arrangements.

Labor has previously committed to pursuing a mandatory right to paid maternity leave.

Barbara Pocock, the author of "The Labour Market Ate My Babies", says it is "absolutely shocking" that Australia continues to lag on something as basic as paid maternity leave.

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that while more women with children have taken on paid work over the past decade, Australian women of childbearing age still had among the lowest workforce participation rates for advanced nations.

"The participation of women is around 10 per cent behind many of our first-world trading partners," Professor Pocock says.


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