Equal Pay Day is a significant day for any women's calendar. This is the day were we acknowledge the Gender Pay Gap, where we work towards solutions that may close the gap. The first step however to acknowledge, recognise that there is such an issue and that this issue is bigger than your take home pay each week, it is about your life long earning capacity and your economic future. Equal Pay Day is too important to overlook.

2. 2015 the
gender pay gap
calculated by
the Australian
Bureau of
Statistics was
18.2%
compared to
17.4% in 2013

3. BPW Caboolture
works to
acknowledge and
work towards Pay
Equity

4. The Honourable
Shannon Fentiman
MP, Qld Minister
for Communities,
Women and
Youth, Minister for
Child Safety and
Minister for
Multicultural
Affairs

5. Women make up
45.6% of all
employees

6. Women constitute
69.3% of all part-time
employees
35.7% of all full time
employees
57% of all casual
employees

7. Women
continue to
bear the
greatest share
of domestic
work and child
care;

8. women comprise 39.8%
of ‘other managers’
26.1% of key
management personnel
(KMPs report directly to
their CEO)
17.3% of CEOs.

9. Nikki Boyd MP
State Member
for Pine Rivers
Shane King MP
State Member
for Kallangur
Chris Whiting
MP
State Member
for Murrumba

10. There is “clear
evidence” many
employers do not
understand what
pay equity means.
Helen Conway

11. What is needed for
sustainable change is
more than workplace
measures.

12. We need to Tackle
notions of gender
inequality in the
consciousness of
Australian society

13. through education
and developing
critical thinking in
children, youth
and adults to
question gender-
based
discrimination -
Helen Conway

14. Female graduates earn on average
$5,000 per annum less than male
graduates upon entering the workforce

15. Of the ASX 200
companies, only
20% have female
directors, of
which 6% have
female chairs
and 6% have
female CEOs;

16. On average, women
receive just 33.6% of
men’s superannuation
payout on retirement

18. Equal remuneration
cases continue to
uncover systematic
under-valuation of
women’s work and
skills;

19. Pay Disparity has
increased markedly in
three industries;
Admin & Support
Services +7.8
Wholesale Trade +6.5
Manufacturing +3.9

22. We have one of the
highest rates in the
OECD of dependence
of women on part-time
and casual jobs
(with minimal career
paths)
to combine work and
family responsibilities

23. Women continue to have
unequal access to the
benefits of workplace
bargaining and are over-
represented in low-paid
jobs dependent on
minimum wages and
conditions

24. gender role
stereotypes still
predominate and
our workforces are
often segregated into
women’s work and
men’s work

25. women often face a
‘glass ceiling’; they
do not move on to
senior positions even
when they have the
same qualifications
as men

27. women interrupt
their careers more
frequently, e.g. after
pregnancy

28. women more often
work part time and
in temporary jobs
that have reduced
hourly pay rates

31. in professions
where women
predominate,
wages are
generally lower
than industry
standards

32. 1 in 4
Agency reporting
organisations
conducted a gender pay
gap analysis
Of these…
1 in 12
took action to address
their gender pay gap

33. “women’s work”
is undervalued

34. Average weekly
earnings
men - $1,591.60
women - $1,307.40
$284.20 per week less
than men.

35. https://www.wgea.gov.au/sites/default/files/G
ender_Pay_Gap_Factsheet.pdf
This high overall gender
pay gap was mainly
driven by high gender
pay gaps in two
occupations:
Technicians and Trades
Workers (33.2%) and
Community and
Personal Service
Workers (27.4%).