Australia: Federal bureaucrats' unsure how to meet Labor governments targets for women on public boards

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'Federal government departments are unsure about how to meet Labor's goal of having more women on public boards, a Senate hearing has been told.

Labor promised, during the election campaign, to have 40 per cent female representation by 2015.

But government departments are still deciding how to implement these gender diversity objectives, said Cate McKenzie, the group manager of women's affairs within the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

"And really, without that information at this point, we're unable to say which particular strategies the departments will be employing," she told a Senate estimates committee.'