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Where To Stream Four Corners Season 2026 Episode 34

The Pregnancy Penalty

Four Corners looks at how being pregnant can still cost Australian women their jobs. Being pregnant or a mother can still cost women their jobs, decades after the Sex Discrimination Act started. From the factory floor to the executive suite, pregnancy discrimination remains part of workplace culture in Australia. One of the organisations that tracks the issue across three states says calls have increased significantly in the last two years, with 600 complaints about pregnancy discrimination in...