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What is the Gender Pay Gap?

Gender Pay Gap: The Facts, Why It Is Important
and What Can Be Done About it? ( PDF) looks at factors that may be contributing to the gender pay gap. New!

http://sydney.edu.au/business/workplaceresearch/
news/2011/national_equal_pay_day
Data from a five-year longitudinal study on the gender pay gap New!

Legal Milestones (PDF) EOWA looks at the struggle for pay equality in Australia over time.
Statistics

Pay Equity Statistics Factsheet (PDF) Updated May 2011 with current Pay Equity Statistics from the ABS (including industry and occupation breakdowns, and trends over time).
EOWA YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/AustGovEOWA
Case Studies Allens Arthur Robinson (PDF) This case study focuses on gender pay equity in a professional services firm. (August 2011)

Cement Australia (PDF) This a brief case study outlining discoveries made through utilising the EOWA Pay Equity Audit Tool, and subsequent actions taken.

National Australia Bank (PDF) This is a highly detailed report mapping out a large scale Pay equity Audit and analysis. It includes a look at the research methods, lessons and observations, components of identified pay gaps and the development of a response to the issues.

An example from Local Government (PDF) The Victorian Government in collaboration with the industry through the local government pay equity project, sponsored pay equity audits in a large metropolitan and a regional local government employer: Moreland City Council and the City of Greater Bendigo. This report presents the common findings of these audits.

The NSW Public Service Pay Equity Audit Report 2011 is an audit of pay rates in the NSW public service, undertaken by the Public Sector Workforce in late 2010. The purpose of the audit was to investigate whether there was a gender pay gap and to provide detailed analysis of any discrepancies between pay rates of men in the public service and those of women.
Research reports

Graduate Statistics (PDF) provide a breakdown of female and male graduate starting salaries - exposing the gender pay gap at the outset of a woman's career. (December 2011)

Global Gender Pay Gaps and Trends (PDF) International comparisons from the OECD.

 World Economic Forum: The Global Gender Gap Report 2010 (PDF) This report includes gender gap information on Australia and a 5 year comparative index on progress in countries across the world. 

NATSEM Report: The Impact of a Sustained Gender Wage Gap on the Australian Economy (Link to external website)  This NATSEM 2010 report (PDF) finds simply being a woman is the major contributing factor to the wage gap in Australia. This gap has a substantial effect on Australia's economic performance. (March 2010)
2010 Auspoll Survey (PDF) This poll (conducted on behalf of EOWA and Diversity Council Australia) shows that the majority of Australians believe the gender pay gap needs to be addressed.  (August 2010)

Understanding the Economic Implications of the Gender Pay Gap in Australia (PDF) A KPMG report for Diversity Council Australia examines the high economic cost of the persistent gender pay gap. (November 2009)
Making it Fair: Pay Equity and associated issues Report (Link to external website) The 2009 report resulting from the Federal Government's Inquiry into pay equity and associated issues related to increasing female participation in the workforce. (November 2009)

Australia's Hidden Resource: The Economic Case for Increasing Female Participation (PDF) A 2009 research paper by Goldman Sachs JBWere finds that closing the gap between men's and women's workforce participation would boost Australia's GDP by 11%. (November 2009)

Accumulating Poverty? Women's experiences of inequality over the lifecycle (Link to external website) A 2009 issues paper from the Australian Human Rights Commission examining the gender gap in retirement savings. (September 2009)

 The gender wage gap within the managerial workforce: An investigation using Australian panel data (PDF) The University of Melbourne examines the gender pay gap among full-time managers in Australia from 2001-2007. (July 2009)

Women Work: The Business Benefits of Closing the Gender Gap This piece of international research that outlines the business benefits of closing the gender gap in leadership teams. 

NATSEM Report: "She Works Hard for the Money" (PDF)  This 2009 NATSEM report looks at the compounding effect of pay inequity on women over their lifetime. (April 2009)

 Pay, Power and Position: Beyond the 2008 EOWA Australian Census of Women in Leadership ((Link to page) EOWA examines income and status for Australia's top female executives at board director and executive manager level (October 2008).
 

Related websites

 Diversity Council Australia

Australian Human Rights Commission:
Media Release

The Australian Government Office for Women (OfW)

Economic Security 4 Women:
Employee Survey
Employer Survey

Equality Rights Alliance

BPW Australia

ACTU
 
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