The latest scorecard from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency shows an alarming continuation of the gender pay gap that won\u2019t be closed for decades, Greens spokesperson for women, Senator Larissa Waters said.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve still got a 16.2 per cent gap in what men and women get paid – it\u2019s clearly still far better to be a bloke in this country when it comes to salary,\u201d Senator Waters said.
\n\u201cThere has been a small, welcome decline overall, but the fact men still earn $25000 more every year on average than women is outrageous.
\n\u201cThere is no good reason for that and the only explanation for it is sexism.\u201d
\nSenator Waters said the report shows while more employers are conducting pay gap analyses, more than 40 per cent are still not following them up with action.
\n\u201cThe WGEA needs to be given more teeth to force employers to plug the \u2018action gap\u2019 once they realise they have a pay gap,\u201d Senator Waters said.
\n\u201cThe Greens’ bill to ban \u2018pay gag clauses\u2019 which are used to disguise the gender pay gap would also help, as would our plans to encourage more men to take parental leave, boost women\u2019s financial security and make workplaces more family friendly.
\n\u201cWe need leadership on this issue but instead we have a PM who hasn\u2019t said a word on gender quality, not even on the epidemic of domestic violence which is killing more than one woman a week.
\n\u201cIf Mr Morrison can\u2019t stand up for 50 per cent of the population he has no place being Prime Minister. He should stop delaying his inevitable sacking by the Australian people and call an election.\u201d
\nThere is however a growing increasingly vocal argument that the so-called gender pay gap is simply an invention of those trying to advance their political careers making use of the women’s movement. Other spokes people point to the “lazy” choices that women make during their career and the failure of many women to achieve academically at the same level as men as the real cause of pay disparity. The people pushing this agenda would have women who have both not achieved at the same level paid the same automatically and those who choose family time over their career the same. Put simply women often get paid less because they often work less.
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