The coronavirus crisis could cause a devastating setback in the fight to achieve pay equity, advocates have warned as Australia marks Equal Pay Day.
Management consultant Rinku Razdan said that, as a migrant working in a male-dominated field, she had been forced to work harder than her colleagues to gain recognition.
"I always felt that to succeed in any position I had to be better than others. I don't feel, from a gender equality point of view, that the same applies to men." "We are still finding that employers are not paying women the same as men and are not meeting their legal requirement, which is really concerning," she said.
In May this year, the average weekly ordinary full-time earnings of women across all occupations and industries was just over $1,500.The average weekly ordinary full-time earnings of men, on the other hand, was $1,800.
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