Women remain undervalued and underrepresented in the workforce, according to Mary Woodbridge, director of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
WGEA has just released its latest gender equality scorecard, which shows Australian women earned, on average, $25,800 less than men in 2020-21, and men are twice as likely to be highly paid than women.
The scorecard shows women make up less than 20 per cent of CEOs, and three-quarters of all board continue to have a significant male majority. Indeed, 1 in 5 boards have no women on them at all.
Women are also more likely to be in insecure forms of work, with only 2 in 5 full-time employees being women. About 60 per cent of women are employed part-time or casually, compared to 33 per cent of men.
Source: Men twice as likely to be highly paid, new gender equality scorecard shows