WRAW Con 2024
The Women’s Rights at Work Conference 2024 is on August 23 from 9am to 5pm and we would be thrilled to have you join us for what is sure to be a fantastic day. Learn from and take action with the women who make up our movement with a full day of panels, workshops and solidarity. From using new laws to organise and win equal pay, to getting women’s health on the agenda, ending pay secrecy and creating workplaces that are...
Equal Pay Day
Today is Equal Pay Day! It marks the 50 days into the new financial year that Australian women must work to earn the same, on average, as men did last year. This year’s theme is “it doesn’t add up.” The national gender pay gap measures the difference between the average weekly full-time base salary earnings of women and men, expressed as a percentage of men’s earnings. It is a measure of women’s overall...
Update on Gender Undervaluation
We are continuing to work hard on the gender undervaluation case before the Fair Work Commission to deliver substantial increases to minimum rates of pay for health professionals, on the basis of undervaluation of their skills and qualifications due to gendered bias. Members will have heard recent news about major pay rises for nurses, early childhood educators and various other professions for similar gender-based reasons. Correcting...
Gender Undervaluation in the Spotlight
Last year the Fair Work Commission released an important study into the undervaluation of feminised occupations, what would be considered as traditionally “women’s work”. It’s an important study as it considers the potential undervaluation of such work rather than focussing on the gender pay gap. The study touched on many of the occupations members are employed in like Medical Laboratory Scientists (particularly lab technicians many...
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