Transcript:
[Quiet piano music plays]
Text: A baby is born every two minutes in Australia
[Jane enters the office and sits down behind the desk.]
Voice of male employer (off screen): ‘Thanks for coming in Jane. Take a seat’.
[The door closes]
[Sound of door latch clicking]
Text: Half of their mums experience workplace discrimination
[Jane listens to what is being said to her, she looks shocked by what she hears.]
Woman 1 (off screen): ‘You should just do whatever work you can find and focus on raising your children’.
Woman 2 (off screen): ‘We’ve already hired someone else to replace you’.
Text: These are real women’s stories of discrimination
Woman 1: ‘Our normal business hours are 8.00am to 6.00pm and if you can’t do those hours, then it is just not going to work’.
Woman 2: ‘You will need to start your maternity leave early’.
Woman 3: ‘Yeah, it is too much of an unknown for us’.
Woman 4: ‘Your position has been made redundant’.
Woman 1: ‘You won’t be able to perform at such a high level, 6 weeks before your due date’.
Woman: ‘Are you sure you want to have the baby’?
Text: 110,000 women experience pregnancy or parental discrimination each year
Text: Just 1 in 10 seek advice
Voiceover: ‘You have rights. You don’t need to go to Court to raise them. Knowing the law can help you keep your job’.
[Jane begins to look relieved and quietly determined.]
Male voiceover: Take action to protect your job and your family. Speak to a lawyer. It is easy, free and confidential.
[Jane smiles]
Woman 1 : ‘110,000 women each year –’.
Woman 2: ‘Help make pregnancy discrimination...’
Woman 3: ‘..difficult to ignore’
Woman 4: ‘Know your rights’.
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Reviewed 01 February 2022