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About Pay Equity
As Justice Mary Gaudron once said, ‘We got equal pay once, then we got it again and then we got it again and now we still don’t have it.’ The most recent figures on pay equity illustrate Justice Gaudron’s statement. The latest average weekly earnings data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that there is still a gender wage gap of around 16 per cent. Furthermore, this gap has been fairly static despite developments that could have been expected to reduce it, for example, increased education, increased share of professional jobs, longer workforce duration and the related increased experience. The figures, based on full-time adult ordinary earnings, show that, in 1994, women were earning 83.9 cents for every dollar men earned. By 2004, they were earning 84.8 cents. The pay gap in men and women's total earnings is even more pronounced. In 1994 men's total average weekly earnings were $643.10, compared with $424.90 for women - a difference of 34%. Ten years later, men's total weekly earnings had risen to $911.60 compared with $604.00 for women - once again a pay gap of 34%. Clearly, there is still a long way to go in achieving pay equity in Australia. |
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