Ms. Lisa Smylie at the Status of Women Committee

Director General, Communications and Public Affairs Branch, Research, Results and Delivery Branch, Department for Women and Gender Equality

In terms of data on a whole related to gender, there were pockets of data.

What I can say is, prior to 2015 there was no focus to...research team at Status of Women to shepherd this data collection.

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