‘40:40:20’: Firms respond to gender equality citation
By Emma Ryan|02 March 2021
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has revealed its new WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation holders, with three law firms offering their take on the recognition.
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) unveiled its list of 2020-22 WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) citation holders last week, which recognises employers that commit to promoting gender equality in Australian workforces. Seventeen organisations received a two-year citation, adding to the current group of 119 citation holders for the 2019-21 period, with Woolworths Group becoming the first major food retailer to receive the recognition.
Australia’s gender pay gap has dropped to 13.4%, marking a small decline in the gap between men and women’s full-time earnings over the last six months.
The national gender pay gap has narrowed slightly to 13.4% for full-time employees, a decline of 0.6 percentage points over the past six months, the federal Workplace Gender Equality Agency announced on Thursday. The figure has been calculated from the latest average weekly earnings data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The gender pay gap equates to a $242.20-a-week difference on average between the amount women and men make. The.
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Australian women working full-time are paid on average $242.20 a week less than men - a gap that has improved, albeit slowly and mostly due to labour market shifts rather than progress on equality.
Women working full-time earned on average $1562 in a week, while male full-time workers were paid $1804.20, data from the federal government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows.
If you’re an Australian woman working full-time, chances are you will on average earn $242.20 a week less than a man.
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The pay gap dropped to 13.4 per cent, a decline of 0.6 percentage points over the past six months, according to WGEA’s analysis of the latest average weekly earnings data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
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