How Australia's biggest companies stack up on gender pay equality
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New data shows Australia's gender pay gap has narrowed, but working women are still more than $28,000 a year worse off than the average man.

In short:

More than half of Australian companies have improved their gender pay gap, compared to last year. But for every $1 a man earns, women, on average, still only earn 78 cents.

The gender pay gap is not about “equal pay for equal work”, but aims to quantify the difference between the average earnings of women and men in the workforce.

What’s next?

Anyone can view the gender pay gaps at companies that employ more than 5 million Australian workers, and their plans to reduce the gap.

  • Noobnarski@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I don’t think banking should be paid as highly as it does, but mine workers earn so much because they literally risk their lives at work.

    The reason why bankers earn so much probably is because they work with huge amounts of money, so it’s easier for them to demand a cut of it.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      So, my question “why” was rhetorical. The point is that fundamentally, the money an industry gets represents its value to society, and society clearly does not value the sort of work that is associated with women as much as it does “men’s work”.