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 Home : Australian Women in Leadership Census : About Equal Opportunity : Key Agenda Items : Pay Equity

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data indicate that women are earning on average just 84% of what men earn for full-time work.

Pay equity is about providing equal remuneration for work of equal value. For employers, that means:

  • Paying men and women equally for work that is of equal skill and responsibility and is performed under comparable conditions; and
  • Ensuring that all workers have the same access to benefits, superannuation, allowances and other discretionary payments. 

Unfortunately, in Australian there is still a significant pay gap between men and women:

  • Women in full-time employment earn just 84.3 per cent of male earnings (ABS May 2001); and
  • Women in all types of employment (ie, including full-time, part-time and overtime) earn just 66.3 per cent of male earnings (ABS May 2001).

EOWA has developed a tool to assist organisations to analyse their workplace to identify whether or not pay inequities exist and develop solutions to address them.

 
 
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