News & Views Australia’s gender pay gap has dropped, thanks to aged care wage increase New research has uncovered the positive impact of increasing wages in low paid industry on Australia’s gender pay gap.
Sport Alisha Lehmann and her boyfriend play football for the same club, but he earns ‘100,000 times more’ than her Swiss footballer Alisha Lehmann calla out the ‘unfair’ gender pay gap between herself and her boyfriend, who both play for the same club.
News & Views Super shouldn’t be ‘set and forget’: How paid parental leave is helping to close the gender retirement gap The importance of superannuation for women’s financial security and highlights the government’s efforts to improve access through initiatives like paid parental leave.
Local Today is Equal Pay Day. Here’s what that means and why intersectionality is the next step Equal Pay Day is here, marking the 50 days into the new financial year that Australian women must work to earn the same, on average, as men.
News & Views Gender pay gap drops to lowest level on record at 11.5 per cent Australia’s gender pay gap has dropped to its lowest level on record at 11.5 per cent, down from 12 per cent, according to new ABS data.
Soapbox The wage rise for early childhood educators needs to be part of wider reform in the feminised care sector Early childhood educators will welcome the announcement of a 15 per cent wage rise, but they are starting from a low starting base.
News & Views The public sector has a smaller gender pay pap than the private sector, but women are still earning much less Women earn 86 cents for every dollar men earn working in the Commonwealth public sector, a report from the WGEA has found.
Tech Women in tech are paid 14 per cent less than men, while twice as likely to be harassed A new report show major disadvantages for women in tech and IT including low representation, a gender pay gap and greater discrimination.
Local Underpaid social workers are leaving the sector as Australia grapples with domestic violence crisis Chronic and systemic underpayment is placing social workers under significant financial strain and contributing to labour shortages.
News & Views We’re looking in the wrong place for solutions to the gender pay gap The bulk of the hourly gender pay gap is because women are being paid less than men in the same occupation, writes Dr Silvia Griselda.
News & Views New study busts ‘myth’ that gender pay gap exists because more women work in lower paid occupations New data has revealed the majority of Australia’s national gender pay gap is due to women being paid less than men within the same occupation.
News & Views How male corporate leaders can play a role in ending gender-based violence Corporate Australia has a responsibility to create positive change beyond office walls, writes Bec Brideson.
