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PwC leads the way on reducing the gender pay gap
The big four firm is the only major consultancy that has effectively eliminated its gender pay gap.
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- Edmund Tadros
The best advice this boss was given: Be the CEO of your career
Having a clear strategy around how you manage yourself, both in business and outside, is important, says Blackmores CEO Alastair Symington
- Sally Patten
When we talk about the gender pay gap, this is what we mean
The Workplace Gender and Equality Agency released individual employers’ gender pay gaps for the first time on Tuesday. Here’s how to understand the numbers.
- Lucy Dean
Diversity advocates McKinsey, BCG, Bain land pay gaps over 30pc
Strategy firms that advise clients to increase the diversity of their workforces and leadership teams have gender pay gaps that are up to double the national gap.
- Edmund Tadros
Full list: the gender pay gaps at Australia’s top 250 companies
The Australian Financial Review has dug through calculations of pay disparity at more than 5000 companies to zero in on the ASX200 and the largest private firms.
- Cindy Yin
Oil, gas giants claim highest pay gaps in resources industry
More men working offshore and at remote mines in roles that attract away-from-home allowances and higher pay, fuel the mining industry’s highest pay gaps.
- Tom Rabe
Recent columns
Gender pay gap calls for proper explanation to maximise opportunity
While business is not entirely to blame, there is clearly room for innovative thinking about how corporates can tackle the cultural barriers to women working different jobs at different times in different places for more pay.
Editorial
Gender pay transparency without action is diagnosis without treatment
The gender pay gap is built on complex social and economic bedrock. The time has come for a clear, strategic plan detailing how businesses intend to end the disparity.
KPMG partner
The time for empty promises on women’s pay is over
The release of gender pay gap data for individual companies this week has some limitations, but it will still be a historic moment that can be a force for good.
Deputy editor - News
Why directors need to tackle gender pay gaps
They cannot simply ignore the rear-view data or brush it off as another reporting or compliance obligation.
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Gender pay gap calls for proper explanation to maximise opportunity
While business is not entirely to blame, there is clearly room for innovative thinking about how corporates can tackle the cultural barriers to women working different jobs at different times in different places for more pay.
- The AFR View
Corrs lags top law firms on gender pay gap
Firms with a higher proportion of women partners tended to have a smaller median pay gap among staff, new data from WGEA shows.
- Maxim Shanahan
IPO hopeful Rokt has largest gender pay gap of tech unicorns
Male-dominated software engineering and sales teams have worsened the pay divide across the local technology sector.
- Tess Bennett
These companies nailed the gender pay challenge. It wasn’t easy
Companies such as Super Retail Group, Wesfarmers, PwC and Cotton On have the most balanced pay rates between men and women employees.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Gender pay gap
Gender pay transparency without action is diagnosis without treatment
The gender pay gap is built on complex social and economic bedrock. The time has come for a clear, strategic plan detailing how businesses intend to end the disparity.
- Dorothy Hisgrove
Investment banking boys’ club gender pay gaps near 50pc
The biggest gender pay gaps in Australian workplaces are not found on construction sites or down mines but behind trading screens in state-of-the-art office towers.
- Aaron Weinman
Bonuses, overtime drive 19pc gender pay gap
The median pay gap at businesses with 100-plus employees has been revealed for the first time and professional services and banks recorded some of the worst disparities.
- Hannah Wootton
Yesterday
Family of accused in alleged $180m tax fraud boasts $40m in property
The alleged “controlling mind” of what could be the country’s biggest tax fraud splashed cash on a luxury four-bedroom penthouse boasting Sydney harbour views.
- David Marin-Guzman
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- Gender pay gap
Emma fuels jets for the overtime, but she’s a gender pay gap exception
Traditionally male-dominated industries such as energy and construction have wider gender pay gaps, CEOs admit ahead of the historic release of national gender pay gap data.
- Sally Patten and Hannah Wootton
Overtime, bonuses help men earn more than women
Systemic barriers stop women picking up these overtime hours though, putting them even further behind their male colleagues financially.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Gender pay gap
Why directors need to tackle gender pay gaps
They cannot simply ignore the rear-view data or brush it off as another reporting or compliance obligation.
- Ann Sherry and Andrew Stevens
- Opinion
- Gender pay gap
The time for empty promises on women’s pay is over
The release of gender pay gap data for individual companies this week has some limitations, but it will still be a historic moment that can be a force for good.
- Jessica Gardner
ATO probes top construction subbie over ‘$180m tax fraud’
The Tax Office is investigating a suspected 15-year scheme that could prove to be the biggest corporate tax fraud in history.
- David Marin-Guzman
This Month
10 easy steps to massage your gender pay gap
The labour of solving a problem that is not caused by them, and directly disadvantages them, again falls to women.
- Hannah Wootton
Gender pay gap falls to record low: ABS
The gender pay gap of the average full-time employee in Australia has fallen to a record low of 15 per cent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
- Edmund Tadros
Hours, travel contribute to Bain’s 31pc gender pay gap
Bain, a consulting firm that heavily promotes itself as being an employer of choice for women, has a gender pay gap of 31 per cent, higher than the industry gap of 26 per cent.
- Edmund Tadros
How UK gender pay gap data helped drive change
Similar data will be published about Australian businesses on Tuesday in an attempt to force similar transparency and action locally.
- Hannah Wootton
The group saying no to uni: white, male, and would rather be a tradie
The Albanese government wants to get more kids into universities, but a new study on apprentices shows there is a clear cohort with no interest in a degree.
- Julie Hare
WFH ban uncaring but ‘not unreasonable’: ruling
The Fair Work Commission has rejected that a pregnant manager was forced to resign because her boss refused to let her work from home one day a week.
- David Marin-Guzman
The judge who made business better
When the economy opened up in the 1980s, Andrew Rogers helped Australia become a more commercially sophisticated country, NSW’s chief justice writes.
- Andrew Bell
