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Unemployment rate rises as gender wage gap narrows

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2023
... to 4.5% by mid-2024, aligning with expectations of decelerating GDP growth. In another development, Australia's gender wage gap is experiencing a historic narrowing. ABS data reveals that the gender wage gap has shrunk to its smallest ever, with female ...

Young investors undeterred by volatility: Data

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022
... indicates that Millennial women are picking up share investing at the same rate as men, despite having to overcome a 36% wage gap. "Our recent research shows that both women and men hold an average 2.5 assets, invest once a month, and allocate about ...

Tasmania leads the nation: CommSec

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... wage growth in the quarter, with the biggest decline in real wages seen in Tasmania (down -1.0pps). "The biggest real wage gap was recorded in Northern Territory with wages 0.9pp higher than consumer prices. Next were Queensland and the ACT (both +0.3pp)," ...

Adequacy argument headlines online CMSF

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
A debate over the adequacy of the superannuation guarantee has kicked off the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, which is now being delivered online. Having been called off like many other events thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian ...

Super tax concessions out of hand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... does the difference in wealth between rich and poor households grow in line with super tax concessions, but so does the wage gap between men and women. The Institute said women receive just 30% of super tax concessions, despite making p around 50% of ...

Human Super appoints inaugural chief executive

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... either conscious or unconscious, when it comes to wages compared with their male counterparts," Helyar-Moray said. "This wage gap is then made greater by time spent out of the workforce on maternity leave and raising children; a time during which they ...

Gender pay equity in banking getting worse: FSU

... acting director of the sex and discrimination unit at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, said the gender wage gap in the finance and insurance sector (at 23 percentage points) was around 7 percentage points lower than the average gender ...
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