Women pay price for baby leave

Australian women who take maternity leave pay a financial penalty even three years after their return to work, research has found.

They receive a lower hourly pay rate than other female workers with no career break even though both groups had previously been on the same hourly pay scale.

''The women are going backwards because they took time out of the workforce while their colleague are progressing down the career path,'' said David Baker, a research fellow at the Australia Institute.

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