Is Australia is a contemporary and modern society?
According to the latest data of the Australian bureau of statistics, woman are early on average 17% less than men.
A significant 'gap' of about $260. we are familiar with the notion of gaps, gaps in the education system, gaps between indigenous students and non indigenous students etc.
On a international scale Australia sits at number 20, (as you can see in the below figures), the Australian gender pay gap is significantly lower than that of countries such as United kingdom, Hungary and Cyprus. BUT our gender pay gap is significantly higher than countries that Poland, Italy and Slovenia.
Gender pay gap worldwide
Rank Country Pay gap
1 Slovenia 0.90%
2 Poland 4.50%
3 Italy 5.30%
4 Malta 7.20%
5 New
Zealand 7.80%
6 Luxembourg 8.70%
7 Romania 8.80%
8 Belgium 10.20%
9 Portugal 12.80%
10 Bulgaria 13%
11 Iceland 13.50%
12 Ireland 13.90%
13 Lithuania 14.60%
14 Sweden 15.40%
15 Latvia 15.50%
16 France 15.60%
17 Norway 15.80%
18 Denmark 16%
19 Spain 16.20%
20 Australia 16.40%
21 Cyprus 16.80%
22 Hungary 17.60%
23 Netherlands 17.80%
24 Switzerland 19.10%
25 United
Kingdom 19.50%
26 Slovakia 19.60%
27 Canada 19.70%
28 Finland 20.30%
29 Greece 22%
30 Germany 22.30%
31 United
States 23%
32 Austria 24%
33 Czech
Republic 25.50%
34 Estonia 27.70%
35 Japan 28.30%
36 South
Korea 38.90%
A report according to the Australian council of trade unions, Australia is one of the most sexist employment markets of the world. Woman are continually under paid and receive less promotions compared to men.
Obviously this is alarming, The article puts the fault on outdated workplace culture. This is interesting, the old fashioned culture is still at play even though we believe we have moved past it through development and globalisation.
This workplace culture, even though people may not admit it, is still severely confirming the sexist nature of the workplace but also the sexist discourses that are present within society as a whole.
Micro-Aggressions at their best!
In jobs dominated by men, Men earn more than woman. In jobs dominated by woman, MEN, AGAIN earn more than woman? whats going on?
This type of micro-aggressions feed off processes of power relations, where gender is not a concrete notion, it is in a relationship with economic, political intersections. The way gender is defined varies throughout history.
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