Hon JAN TINETTI (Minister for Women) (remote): Happy International Women's Day. The theme of International Women's Day today is "Break the Bias". Today, I'm calling on all of us to reflect that research shows around 80 percent of the gender pay gap is caused by factors such as conscious and unconscious bias. That means we all have a role to play in breaking the bias and being responsible for our own thoughts and actions. Under Labour we've made good progress in closing the gender pay gap in the Public Service. It's at the lowest it's ever been at 8.6 percent, down from 9.6 last year. The Government's eliminating the gender pay gap, and the Public Service action plan is implementing actions and milestones towards eliminating the gender pay gap in the Public Service. I'm also progressing work to see those gains in the private sector pay gap with Māori, Pacific, disabled, and ethnic women.