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Australia’s gender pay gap still gaping

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Do you know how much your male colleagues are paid compared to women? Image: Nick Karvounis.

A report released by KPMG today shows the gap in pay between men and women in Australia has not changed for the last twenty years.

According to the report the leading contributor to pay discrepancy is sex discrimination, which increased from fourteen per cent in two thousand and nine to thirty-eight percent in twenty sixteen.

So why haven’t pay conditions improved for Australia’s working women?

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Friday, October 28 2016

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Jacqueline Scheiwe
Eduardo Jordan

Featured in storyTamara Price - KPMG Consultant Director, author of She's Price(d)less: The economics of the gender pay gapMichelle Brown - Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Melbourne

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Australia’s gender pay gap still gaping

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