Report Highlights Gender Pay Gap
Type: Union News Subject: Women
16 January 2010
Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick.
The growing gap in pay between men and women is put under the spotlight in a House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment and Workplace Relations' report.
Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, welcomed its release, saying it yet again highlighted the urgent and overdue need to close the growing gender pay gap.
‘One of the most important reforms proposed in this report is the elevation of the principle of equal pay for work of equal or comparable value from a “good to have” to an “unambiguous obligation”,’ Commissioner Broderick said.
She noted that the Making it Fair: Pay Equity and Associated Issues Related to Increasing Female Participation in the Workforce report provided further evidence of the systemic and worsening nature of the problem in Australia.
‘It is refreshing to see this report recognise the gender pay gap as systemic gender discrimination that has lifelong impacts,’ said Commissioner Broderick. ‘At its core the gender pay gap is overt and direct sex discrimination.’
Reforms proposed in the report include significant changes to Australia’s industrial relations system, gender equality legislation and gender equality mechanisms, as well as specific changes that could benefit women working in low-paid occupations.
It includes recommendations for the introduction of a positive duty on organisations to respect and implement a woman’s right to equal remuneration and the obligation for organisations to report regularly and transparently on the gender pay gap.
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