The report also finds more than 60 per cent of women aged 65 to 69 years had no superannuation.
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The lowest was between single women and men without kids at 0.6%. Payscale found none in which women earn as much as or more than men. Married mothers earned US$46,800 – more than US$20,000 lower than their male counterparts. “The largest pay gap exists between Married Mothers and Married Fathers who indicate that they prioritize family over work obligations at least once a year”.
An inquiry into reducing the gender pay gap, which focuses on women over 40, was launched by the Women and Equalities Committee yesterday.
Queensland’s gender pay gap stands at 18 per cent, compared with 15.7 per cent in 2005 and 15.2 per cent in 1995, the report says.
A Queensland female was more than four times likely to be sexually assaulted by a family member than a Queensland male, and five times as likely to be assaulted by stranger. It used an algorithm to estimate the controlled median pay for women by adjusting for factors such as experience, education, skills, company size, management responsibility and other factors.
“We know if we’re going to tackle gender inequality we need a map of future actions and a clear pathway to make sure we’ve got women in leadership positions, that we’re tackling gender inequality and that women can retire with a healthy superannuation balance”. “Unfortunately when you look at the demographic very few women go into the tech industry, especially in technical roles, which are the most highly paid”.
Latina Equal Pay Day, marking the time it would take the average working Latina to catch up to what an average white, non-Latino man made in 2014, Mashable reports.
The problem is also prevalent across the country. There are no states in which the most relatively common job for women exceeds $77,000. According to the new PayScale data, 45% of men work at management level or higher, while only 37% of women do.
Women with Ph.D.s make 5.1 percent less in total cash compensation than men with the same credential, the biggest wage disparity of any degree type. But PayScale also measured the pay gap in a way that controlled for all of these factors (and more) and found that, overall, women make 2.7% less than men-even when they work the same jobs and have the exact same qualifications. In addition, the median pay for those 11 women is $1.6 million less than the median pay for the 189 men on the list.
“There is still a huge gap between men and women in United Kingdom society particularly in terms of job pay”, the London-based political analyst Chris Bambery told Press TV’s UK Desk.
Despite the value of education, the report found it does not solve the problem because the gap was widest among men and women with PhDs, followed by MBA holders.
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“Companies in the past haven’t linked the return on investment for fostering diverse workforces”, Bach said, “and they haven’t been aware of the really subtle behaviors that are preventing women from getting hired in high-paying roles or rising to executive levels”.
