Female undergraduates were still starting out on salaries worth less than their male counterparts in 2018, with the pay gap particularly stark in fields like dentistry and architecture. That’s a…
Tanya Plibersek outlines measures to help close gender pay gap
Labor has today proposed new measures to combat the gender pay gap in female-dominated industries, should it be elected to govern in 2019. Speaking at Labor’s annual conference this week, Shadow…
More women in sport executive roles? A new program could see just that
There’s no denying it’s been a big 12 months for women’s sport. From huge crowds across the major leagues– AFLW, NRLW, cricket and soccer through to momentous headway on gender…
This employer has an overall pay gap in favour of women, but finds work still to do
It’s unusual to find an employer with a gender pay gap that swings against men but the City of Sydney is one such outlier that makes the cut, with an overall 7.5 per cent pay gap in favour of wo…
Numbers rise but pay gap persists for women in architecture
There’s been a strong jump in the number of female architects, but the gender pay gap persists in the profession, along with a pattern of attrition that’s seeing women dropping out of the …
Pay transparency is power for women and could be a possibility
It was a Labor Party idea, but the Morrison Government hasn’t yet completely ruled out a push to force companies with more than 1000 employees to disclose their gender pay gaps. Prime Minister S…
Same waves, same pay: World Surf League announces historic move to close gender pay gap
The World Surf League announced an historic move today that it will close its gender pay gap once and for all. The League announced that from next year onwards, female athletes will be paid the same p…
End the fear and set targets on men working flexibly: Libby Lyons
Fear is holding back gender diversity in the workplace according to Libby Lyons, Director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. In a wide ranging interview with Women’s Agenda, Lyons also spo…
As a nation, are we setting our girls up for a lifetime of earning less?
This is the reality for Australian girls in 2018: Boys earn more in pocket money than them from an early age and when those boys become men–according to the current gender pay gap–they wil…
We must overhaul how we measure the gender pay gap if we ever hope to fix it
I’ve got a problem with the gender pay gap. The most broadly cited statistics used to calculate the difference between what women and men earn, are not quite right. As it stands, the data is ske…
