Excerpted from the Langley Advance News (February 19, 2002):
(According to Minister of State for Women's Equality, Lynn Stephens),
disparity between men's and women's average pay exists because women
want to work part time.
"That's
a choice they have made," Stephens said. "People make choices. This
government is not about to say you can do this, but can't do that.
From choices flows everything else. You are free to work where you
wish, for whatever you wish; you are free to live where you want."
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