FROM news.com.au
Taxing times for toiling mums
By Sue Dunlevy
May 04, 2007 01:00am
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MOTHERS do 70 per cent of the housework and more than 90 per cent of the childcare. Now it seems they're also paying tax at three times the rate of their husbands.
A tax symposium was told Australia has one of the most sexist systems in the world and it could be part of the reason we're facing a skills crisis.
What self-respecting mother would bother entering the work force if her long hours at work actually left her family worse off by $6.25 per week?
Why is it that the male primary earner in a family on average pays just 10.3 per cent of his income in tax but his wife loses on average 32.7 per cent if she goes out to work?
In the past it was sexist social traditions and biased public service rules that kept women out of the workforce.
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