The gender pay gap — the difference in average pay between Australian men and women — is 11.5 per cent, which is the equivalent of working from November 19 until the end of they year without being paid for it.
Cassandra Barratt says the gender pay gap has always been obvious in the early childhood sector but things are changing.A new report says the gender pay gap , somewhere between 11.5 and 21.7 per cent, is narrowing much faster than it was previously.
"Diplomas in this field get paid 'this much', but diplomas in early childhood only get paid 'this much', and that's predominantly because of the female workforce," she said. Legislation that has boosted workers' rights, including more flexible work, an end to pay secrecy clauses, an expansion of workplace bargaining and the publication of gender pay gaps, is among the reasons why.For half the population today is not just a Tuesday, according to Australian Council of Trade Unions president Michele O'Neil.
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency also collects data and calculates its own gender pay gap."For every $1 on average a man makes, women earn 78c. Over the course of a year, that difference adds up to $26,393."Paying men and women equally for performing comparable jobs at the same level has been the law in Australia for more than 50 years.The gender pay gap — the difference between what men and women are paid in the same organisation — is a stubborn problem.
It's official, men are paid more than women at many of the country's major companies, including banks, retailers, legal firms and mines, but what is being done to address it? The federal government passed the laws to give workers at small businesses, who can lack the bargaining power of larger unionised workforces, more power at the negotiating table.said allowing multi-employer or "pattern" bargaining was "not needed and not warranted".
"There are the dimensions where women have children, and that impacts their earnings on the long term: because they most of the time will work part-time instead of full-time. But there is also the issue of women working in some sectors where their wages are very low compared to other sectors." "We've all got to work harder to close the gender pay gap," says Sussan Ley, deputy leader of the Opposition and shadow minster for women, emphasising the Coalition committed strongly to the goal when in power.
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