Requiring employers to be open about who gets paid what is just one tool for closing the gender pay gap. But the government is showing little sign of seriously tackling the issue.
The Fair Work Commission has been given new tools. Among them is the power to eliminate gender-based undervaluation of work in entire awards and groups of awards.
New research shows that women’s earnings are negatively impacted by having children, while men’s aren’t. The effects can be long-lasting and contribute to the gender pay gap.
A woman participate’s in Iceland’s women’s strike on October 24 2023.
Heiðrún Fivelstad/Iceland's federation of public worker unions (BSRB)
Longstanding concerns like the gender wage gap remain important but second-wave feminism must listen and evolve to continue to protect and promote women’s concerns.
The world’s newest Nobel laureate takes a bow.
Carlin Stiehl/Getty Images
Goldwin’s key insight is that it makes no sense to blame women’s choices for the gender pay gap. What women choose depends on norms and the demands of employers.
Our research shows that aged care work is still stigmatised by other health professionals as dirty, difficult and low-status – more than most other jobs.
Research shows French firms with smaller to no gender wage gap and high female board representation also make better business.
Frances Willard stands behind her mother, at left, and Anna B. Gordon, who worked as a secretary and lived in the Willard household.
Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images
A historian highlights the role of Frances Willard, who helped found the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, one of the major social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Albanese government’s pay secrecy ban is meant reduce gender-based pay differences. It could help others too.
For women to reach leadership positions, they need to be valued and recognized for their contributions, which may look different than those of their male colleagues.
(Shutterstock)
Feminine leadership encompasses aspects of ourselves that have been pushed aside within conventionally male-dominant spaces. Recentring them can foster leadership that is more inclusive.