Will the real gender pay gap please stand up?
- Written by Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
Whenever the gender pay gap is mentioned there are always those who argue it doesn’t exist, either because of differences in the way men and women work, choices women make or legislation prohibiting it. Whatever the reason, this confused rhetoric stems from a couple of sources.
The first is the belief that the gender pay gap is a synonym for...