Men still dominate Australian workplaces, annual pay gap amounting to more than $27,000: WGEA

The Federal Government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency has conducted a survey where it found that Australian workplaces discriminate between the genders when it come to top executive positions.

The report suggested that companies employ women but as part time employees and at a lower salary basis. The men in the companies earn an average amount that is 24 percent more than what women employees are offered.

“This data leads the world in providing a comprehensive picture of what’s happening for women and men across industries and all levels of the workforce,” WGEA’s director Libby Lyons said in a statement .

The data was on about 4 million employees from almost 12,000 employers that have been required to report under the Workplace Gender Equality Act since 2012. The WGEA report indicated that pay gap between men and women workers, amounting to an overall difference of over $27,254 per year exists in almost all business sectors.

In the second annual report of the agency in 2014-15, it was observed that there was a very little change as far as equal recruitment of the two genders were concerned. The data suggests the difference between the number of male and female employees in the organisation along with discriminated pay scales offered to them, but at the same time it emphasises on the changing attitude of employers on gender equality in workplace.

The survey showed that 15.4 percent of CEOs and 27.4 percent of key managerial employees were women. Female workers’ proportion increased from 35.9 percent to 36.5 percent.

“It’s about empowering the employers to put strategies and policies in place that will allow everybody, no matter the gender, to have the opportunity to apply for and achieve these roles,” Lyons told Guardian Australia .

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