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Gender pay gap wider for managers than other job types

Australia is making progress on the gender pay gap yet men in management roles are still earning far more than women managers.

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Australian women are about to find out just how wide the gender pay gap is. Prepare for a rude shock

The heat is on from 27 February, when you’ll be able to find out the difference between how much the median man and the median woman get paid at any large company

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Gender pay gaps to be exposed at Australian companies

Employers with 100 or more staff will be forced to publish their gender pay gaps as part of a government push for improved transparency and workplace equality.

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Orkney has the highest gender pay gap in Scotland

The gap stands at almost 25 per cent.

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Afternoon Update: Seven paid Bruce Lehrmann’s rent for a year, court hears; prominent Australians sign antisemitism letter; gender pay gap decreases

Lehrmann reveals the Seven Network paid his rent for 12 months as part of a deal for an exclusive interview

The Guardian - AU

Cultural stigma holds workplaces back as pay gap falls

An increase in the number of women in leadership roles has helped reduce the gender pay gap but cultural change is needed to eliminate it entirely, data shows.

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Gender Pay Gap for UK Women Aged 40 and Over Predicted to Persist Until Retirement

The gender pay gap in earnings reflects economic inequality about older women entering retirement with lower accrued earnings.

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What the autumn statement means for women – three economists explain

This year’s autumn statement was announced by the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, on Equal Pay Day – the day that UK women stop being paid when compared with men’s wages, due to the gender pay gap. It’s fitting then that the statement included some measures that could help working women –…

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Gender pay gap for UK women aged 40 and over ‘will not close till they are pensioners’

Equal Pay Day report from Fawcett Society blames lack of flexible working in well-paid high-quality jobs

The Guardian - UK

South Korea: Where feminism has become taboo

In this special edition, Annette Young heads to South Korea, which, despite its impressive economic record, consistently scores poorly for gender equality among advanced nations. It has the worst gender pay gap among OECD nations, while its traditional workplace culture results in many women giving up their careers after childbirth.…

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Sexism in the City: Sexual harassment still 'prevalent' in Square Mile with victims 'silenced' by use of NDAs

Equality watchdog warns about scale of sexual misconduct in the Square Mile to Commons Treasury Committee investigating 'Sexism in the City'

Evening Standard

Gender pay gap persists in City boardrooms as male directors still earning 70% more than female counterparts

Gender pay gap barely falling at top companies

Evening Standard

'Scandalous': Scotland's gender pay gap widening STUC warn amid school staff strikes

THE gender pay gap in Scotland is widening, according to a new analysis conducted by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).

The National (Scotland)

What the anti-woke backlash against liberal feminism misses about causes like the gender pay gap

This week, thousands of women across Iceland went on strike to demand greater gender equality. That’s right, Iceland: the country that has ranked highest in the world for gender equality for the past 14 years in a row.

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Women and nonbinary Icelanders go on a 24-hour strike to protest the gender pay gap

According to organizers of the strike, women make 21% less than men on average. Immigrant women and women who work in sanitation and with children have some of the lowest wages in the country.

Fortune

The 4-day workweek could be the best way to bridge the gender pay gap–and the companies that have tried it are living proof

Companies such as Kickstarter, Microsoft Japan, and Unilever have proved that a shorter workweek can benefit working mothers–and business results.

The National (Scotland)

Iceland's Prime Minister joins first women's strike in 48 years over gender pay gap

ICELAND’s prime minister and tens of thousands of women across the nation have gone on strike for the first time in almost half a century calling…

Evening Standard

Iceland's PM Katrin Jakobsdottir goes on strike over gender pay gap

Tuesday’s protest will involve women and non-binary people stopping paid and unpaid labour

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Many women left behind by pay gap efforts

Age, cultural identity and disability are among factors that contribute to the gender pay gap, according to a new report into Victoria's public sector.

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Biden's historic stand with UAW members shows how far labor activism has come in America. True equal pay should be next on his agenda

Apart from the direct $180 billion boost to public finances, closing the gender pay gap could channel an additional $512.6 billion into the U.S. economy.

France 24

Women set to vote for first time at Catholic Synod of Bishops

In a historic moment for the Catholic Church, women are to vote for the first time at the Synod of Bishops, later this month. Annette Young asks Kate McElwee, the executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference, if we are moving closer to the possibility of having Catholic women priests.…

The Conversation

Sidelined no longer, Claudia Goldin wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for examining why gender pay gaps persist

In an astonishing act of timing, Harvard University’s Professor Claudia Goldin published a paper on Monday titled Why Women Won. It mapped milestone moments in women’s rights in the United States from 1905 to 2023.

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Nobel prize in economics: Claudia Goldin's work is a goldmine for understanding the gender pay gap and women's empowerment

Women stirred up a “quiet revolution” in the labour market, according to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the 2023 winner of the Nobel prize in economics for her analysis of gender differences in the labour market, particularly the persistent problem of the…

The Guardian - US

The women who earn more than their partners: ‘I’m with someone who is threatened by me’

In Netflix’s Fair Play, a couple crumbles when the woman is promoted, an experience many can relate to as the gender pay gap tightens

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Wide disparity in gender pay gap across businesses

Australia has made steady progress on closing the gender pay gap but it has started to stall, with some businesses taking leaps and others doing the minimum.

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