Women still earn less than men. The main reason is that women are the ones to leave the workforce to raise children
The latest compilation of gender indicators by the Australian Bureau of Statistics is a report card that reads: improvement made but there is still a long way to go. The indicators come as the Labor party has announced a policy for companies with more than 1,000 employees to publicly reveal how much they pay women compared with men – a policy, which the prime minister, Scott Morrison, has suggested might lead to “conflict in the workplace”.
As I noted last week when the ALP announced its superannuation policy, women’s lifetime incomes are significantly much lower on average than men’s, and the main reason is that women are the ones who leave the workforce to raise children.
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