Five decades ago Australia's industrial relations system endorsed the concept of 'equal pay for equal work'. So why does the gender pay gap endure?
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When it comes to gender equality, it's not just the number of women in parliament that matters – it's how they go about legislating for change.
For years, women footballers have resorted to everything from strikes to lawsuits to fight for gender equity. Why is it taking so long to close the pay gap?
Tackling the gender pay gap must take into account the way that part-time workers are treated.
Mandatory reporting could help highlight the ethnicity pay gap in much the same way that gender pay gap reporting does.
The job of looking after safety in the skies remains a highly sexualised occupation.
Progress on gender pay issues in finance especially has been too slow, fragmented and uneven.
A decade ago, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the latest legislative effort to close the persistent gap between how much women and men earn. Here's why it hasn’t made much of a difference.
For women with a bachelor of arts degree, teaching is one of the highest paying jobs. The opposite is true for men.
Why are there so few women in the football boardroom?
Tanya Plibersek on a united Labor.
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Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek told The Conversation the ALP wants voters to see the party as "responsible and progressive".
There is a wide problem with the way society talks about gender equality.
How an increased use of technology could widen the gender pay gap in higher education.
Women in investment management face sexist treatment and no accommodation of parenting responsibilities. That's bad news for a sector critical to all Australians’ economic security.
The Newspoll two party vote remains much worse than the last days of Malcolm Turnbull, and the controversy over his ousting continues.
The gender pay gap remains stubbornly high in the UK, but the new rules are shaming companies into action.
Like the WNBA, the NBA went through fits and starts in its early years. Yet despite drawing similar crowds in the 1960s, NBA players earned far bigger paychecks than today's WNBA stars receive.
The Anthill 27: Confidence.
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A podcast about confidence – from how it works in our brains and whether it can get us ahead at work to how confidence tricksters fool people into falling for their scams.
More women are on zero hours contracts but these do not feature in gender pay gap reporting.
A range of pressures are forcing companies to consider being more open about pay structures, levels and gaps. What are the risks and potential benefits of being more transparent?
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Law, University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Work and Organisation, University of Essex
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Reader in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent
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Associate Professor Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
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Professor, Human Resource Management, University of Melbourne
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Professor in Work and Organisation Studies, University of Essex
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Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations, Associate Dean, University of Sydney Business School, co-Director Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, James Cook University
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
