Politicians, businesses and unions are trying to find solutions to Australia's economic problems, and a big part of the conversation focuses on women and their participation in the workforce.
increasing 0.3 per cent since November 2021.Until then, the gender pay gap had been steadily declining from a 19 per cent peak in 2014.Michelle Ryan, the director of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at the Australian National University, said gender pay gap statistics showed progress towards gender equality wasn't linear.
"Partly because women have always taken on more of the childcare duties, and partly because much of the work that women do can't be done from home, so women had to give up their work."It is the difference between the average earnings of women and men in the workforce measuring women’s position in the economy in comparison to men
"Service industries like retail, hospitality and tourism were particularly badly affected," she said. The biggest pay difference is in Western Australia where, on average, men earn $2,103 per week compared with $1,631 for women.A typical reason for these disparities is that more women tend to work part time — often to care for children — and a majority take parental leave to be the primary carer, demonstrating how entrenched parental roles are in our society.
To move towards shared parental leave, Professor Ryan said Australia could look at steps taken in Scandinavian countries, such as"They have a use it or lose it system where fathers can't just give their share of parental leave to women," she said.
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