gender pay gap

The Greens have announced a new plan to close the gender pay gap in Australia by paying workers in female dominated industries more.

Workplace relations experts say changes to pay transparency policy could put more weight behind levers available to close the gender pay gap

The Morrison Government loves to cite the gender pay gap figures, but it can’t claim responsibility for the progree made.

Crazy Rich Asians 2 resumes production with new screenwriter, Amy Wang, following original writers’ exit over pay disparity.

“My question is this: when are we going to name the elephant in the room? This annual “best practice” bonanza is emblematic of the Morrison government’s softly, softly — and ultimately ineffective – approach to closing the gender pay gap.”

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has announced its list of employers of choice for gender equality for 2022, naming 120 organisations.

The idea that we focus on these issues for one day, implies that we spend the other 364 doing something else altogether. And the evidence suggests we do.

Australia’s national gender pay gap now sits at 13.8 per cent, down from 14.2 per cent six months ago.

Construction is one of Australia’s fastest growing industries and offers higher than average wages. It is also Australia’s most male dominated industry.

Men outlearning women by an average of $50,000 per year in Accounting. A new guidebook addresses this issue.

But women choose to work in lower paid sectors like health, education and childcare! They say, as if that makes a pay gap OK.

Women remain undervalued and underrepresented in the workforce, according to Mary Woodbridge, director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.