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Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average. (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 23 hours ago by Mee@reddthat.com to c/australia@aussie.zone
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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.

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[–] Tau@aussie.zone 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

The gender pay gap is not about “equal pay for equal work”

Indeed, it seems to be primarily about making rage bait headlines.

Women work less hours on average, with considerably more working part time and those who work full time working less hours than men overall (so less overtime pay). What are you going to do to fix that gap, force women to work more? Between that and less women choosing to work in various higher paid and more physical/dangerous jobs (e.g. trades, mining) it's no wonder there's a difference.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

It's about working out what cultural forces are causing women to work less and helping to equalise those. It's also about how jobs traditionally seen as female-dominated being paid less than male-dominated work. You say

less women choosing to work in various higher paid

I say

Why is the extremely important work of early childcare and teaching not valued as highly as banking or mine working?

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Wait so now the pay gap isn't about women being paid less than men for doing the same job, since that has been proven to be a big fat lie, but is now about women earning less on average across all jobs? What a joke.

Women and men do different jobs. Women don't tend to work in the mines, in construction, on fishing boats, etc - all dangerous but high paying jobs. Men don't tend to be healthcare workers or teachers or secretaries or yoga teachers, all lower paying and less risky jobs. This is why women earn less on average - the jobs they do pay less, no matter what sex you are. It's not a "gender" pay gap, it's a job pay gap. Some jobs pay more than others, more at 9!

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Not "now", and not a lie. This is what it has always been about.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah i read that article, Brisbane Broncos Rugby league club has a massive gender pay gap of 66 cents. Every dollar a man makes on average the woman makes 33 cents.

But we gotta figure 18 of those men are players earning stupid money

Then the women are maybe coaches physics drs etc

The whole article is ridiculous, just riding the coattails of the gender pay gap.

They went on to say the median pay gap coe all jobs is 12 cents. That's not really that bad to be honest. A great deal of improvement.

Then they cherry picked Sydney woman's Ultrasound company where the pay gap is 88 cents between men and women.

I can only assume the woman are receptionists etc and the men Drs.

Surly it's not 88 cents different between male and female Drs

[–] somedev@aussie.zone 3 points 13 hours ago

I think calling it a pay gap is fairly disingenuous, really its about apparent descrimination. We should work ti eliminate descrimination while still hiring the best person for the job, otherwise you end up going the other way and you're back at square one.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, where I work we've hired every female applicant we've ever had and we're still at around 98% male. I'm not sure what we could even do about it.

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

Same in my industry. Rarely do any women apply.

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 6 points 17 hours ago

So the man is only left with 22 cents??? 😯

I'll see myself out...