Last year, I requested data from my officials that showed that women made fewer claims to ACC than men and have fewer injuries covered by the scheme than men, and each woman's claim costs the scheme a third less than a man's, on average, in entitlements. These gender disparities are not surprising when you think about the fact that this scheme was set up to support the largely male New Zealand workforce back in the 1970s, but it is time for us to begin addressing them.