Important Reads From Around The Web
Equal Pay Day Edition | Aug, 2023
1. The lowdown on Equal Pay Day and the Gender Pay Gap - Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA)
“For some people, the gender pay gap is hard to understand or does not seem relevant to their everyday lives. But for women in Australia, the gender pay gap matters. The dollars and cents represent the value placed on their skills, labour and time. It represents missing money that could be spent to meet everyday costs of living. What’s missing matters. It matters for individuals, it matters for families and it matters for Australia.”
About Equal Pay Day, 2023 - READ NOW ↗︎
What's Missing Matters: Media Release - READ NOW ↗︎
Lowest ever national gender pay gap good result, but still more to be done - READ NOW ↗︎
What is the gender pay gap? - READ NOW ↗︎
2. Til It’s Done — why we need to borrow the Matildas’ slogan to close the Gender Pay Gap - Verve Super
“Taking a leaf out of the Matildas’ playbook, we need to push forward with courage and ambition to create change on individual, community, and systemic levels. We cannot stop ‘til it’s done, and the hard work of women+ are amplified; the pay, retirement and investing gaps shrinking to zero.”
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3. How to talk to a gender pay gap denier this Equal Pay Day - Ladies Talk Money
“Despite what the deniers will have you believe, there’s no getting around the fact that the Gender Pay Gap is well and truly alive, and continues to entrench the financial inequities of anyone who is not a wealthy, white cis man. So, what to say to someone who doesn’t ‘believe’ in it?”
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4. Yes, Australia’s gender pay gap is closing. But today’s working women will retire before it is fixed - The Guardian
“In 95% of the 1,025 occupations with at least 50 or more workers, men had a higher average salary – from the 92 women tennis players with an average salary of $4,276 to the 1,336 male diagnostic and interventional radiologists on an average salary of $421,560.”
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5. Think the gender pay gap is just about equal pay? Think again - Ladies Talk Money
“People have been calling out the lack of intersectional data on the pay gap, and the fact that it hides the reality for the majority of women and marginalised peoples in this country, for a long time. So, what is the delay in actually collecting and publishing more disaggregated data? Surely this must be a priority if we want to close the gap(s) in our lifetimes.”
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