The theme for IWD this year is Press for Progress. How are progressing?
Category: Remuneration
NSW leads on closing the gender pay gap
The pay disparity between men and women in NSW shrank more than in any state last year, helping to reduce the Australia-wide gender pay gap to the narrowest it’s been in over a decade.
WGEA Gender Pay Gap Report 2016-2017
The average annual pay packet of full-time female employees is $26,527 less than men’s, rising to $89,216 at the top level of management.
Slow work on the Global Gender Gap
The most challenging gender gaps remain in the economic and health spheres. Given the continued widening of the economic gender gap, it will now not be closed for another 217 years.
ASFA reveals a $120,000 gender gap on super
Women who retired in 2016 had an average super balance of $157,000 while men had $271,000 – an average $120,000 less in their super than men.
Cracking the Glass-Cultural Ceiling: Workplace discrimination report
Although organisations are increasingly investing in building culturally diverse and gender balanced leadership profiles, culturally diverse women are notably under-represented in leadership ranks.
She’s Price(d)less
Australian women graduate from university in equal numbers to men, but they don’t progress through the workforce at the same rate. Data collected by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows that just one in four key management personnel and one in eight CEOs are women.
Diversity in creative agencies: survey findings from The Agency Circle
CEO/MD roles were 84% male, 16% female
Women rely on the family home to finance their retirement
In the absence of significant savings, superannuation or other assets, the family home has become the key form of wealth for many Australian women.
What does the 2017 budget mean for Australian women?
Combined, these changes could lead to effective marginal tax rates of possibly 100% or higher for some women.
Who does the housework, according to the latest Census data
Women consistently trade time in employment for greater time in domestic work even when their resources are on par with men. This is in a society that equates femininity with domesticity.
New Financy Women’s Index shows changes
In the 12 months to December 2016, the Financy Women’s Index powered by Data Digger improved 4.1 points to 106.2 points, as the number of women occuping corporate board positions rose and the disparity between average earnings fell to its lowest level in five years.
