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Panel of two: In the first frame, a gleaming corporate boardroom in Sydney. A mostly male board stares proudly at a shiny door plaque that reads in big bold letters: “PART‑TIME CO‑CEOs (WOMEN) →” with much smaller engraved subtext underneath barely visible: “$0.79 TO THE DOLLAR PACKAGE.” One board member says, “We’ve halved the hours, so why not the pay? That’s equality, mate.” In the second frame, cut to the other side of the same wall: a cramped, messy kitchen in suburban Australia. Two exhausted women “co‑CEOs” share a single battered swivel chair attached to a huge laptop labeled “WORKPLACE GENDER EQUALITY AGENCY (WGEA) GUIDELINES.” They’re juggling crying kids, school permission slips, and buzzing phones that say “URGENT: FLEXIBLE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE.” Above them, a motivational poster from HR reads: “MORE PART‑TIME BOSSES, SAME FULL‑TIME EXPECTATIONS.” One woman mutters, “So they made the job flexible… just not the pay.”

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