Equal pay for equal work may be a long time coming

Getting equal pay is still a problem for Australian women and pay gap in Australia persists. In March 2021 the Bankwest Curtin Economic Centre reported that in Australia full-time women workers on average get around $490 a week less than male co-workers. Why is reform taking so long?

Some areas of the economy have bigger pay gaps than others. Can this executive expect the same pay as her male colleagues? Source: Photo by cityrecruitment/creative commons

Nurina Merdikawati, PhD Scholar at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University describes the concepts of equal pay and pay gap and also explains why the problems persist in contemporary Australia.

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In 2019 the Australian Women’s Soccer team got an historical pay deal that closed the pay gap between male and female players. What can be done in other fields? Source: Photograph: Hannah Peters/Fifa via Getty Images, 06 Nov 2019.