New data shows mining remains one of Australia’s most unequal industries – but the gender gap isn’t just about pay.
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These extra payments are especially high real estate, financial services and other industries.
The public sector shows having a gender balance at senior levels can make a big difference to pay outcomes.
In the first 25 years of the century, Australia elected its first female prime minister and introduced paid parental leave, but how much have things really improved for women?
Companies are fighting for top talent. The latest pay data shows just over half have improved their gender pay gap, but there’s still a long way to go.
Now at 11.5%, the gap in weekly full-time earnings has just seen its steepest annual fall in almost a decade. But national averages don’t tell the whole story.
The naming for the first time of specific companies, not just industries, and what they pay their male and female workers is set to pressure employers to take action.
For the first time, Australians will be able to look up the gender pay gap and the proportion of women employed at every major Australian company.
We will not eradicate the gender pay gap using bad statistics. Here’s what we need to do instead.
Many large employers must already report statistics on issues such as how many women they employ, their pay and their level of seniority. But that’s not enough; an intersectional approach is needed.
Australia used to be a pioneer when it came to equal pay. Today, the average woman has to work an extra 61 days each year to earn the same as the average man.
The gender pay gap is declining in Australia, although that probably has more to do with underlying economic conditions than anything else.
Westpac’s focus on the bottom line benefits of gender diversity overlook the fact that equality is a political imperative, not a corporate one.
Australia’s largest companies are happy to tick gender reporting boxes, but when it comes to pay equity they are largely silent.
Tuesday’s Australian Financial Review Chanticleer survey of 33 largely male “captains of industry” reveals that quotas to improve the numbers of women in senior management positions are still overwhelmingly…
The Workforce Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has launched a campaign to send “daughter water” to the CEOs of approximately 3,000 companies who have reported to the Agency that they haven’t done a gender…
Women in full-time work take home A$283.20 per week less than their male counterparts, according to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, which puts the gender pay gap at 18.2%. Put another way, Australian…
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