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DARK SECRETS: Gender pay gap - The Real Truth

As a business founder and as a man, I regret the decades I spent confined by masculinity

Making women more powerful in my farm business and closing the gender pay gap was not just the right thing to do – it has brought commercial benefits, says Riverford founder Guy Singh-Watson

The Guardian - UK

Apprentice star Baroness Brady calls for faster action to close gender pay gap

The difference between what men and women are paid last year stood at 6.9%.

Evening Standard

Government tells businesses to create new menopause and gender pay gap action plans

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Australia’s gender pay gap is narrowing – and the public spotlight seems to be helping

Since 2024, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has been publishing the gender pay gaps of Australia’s largest companies. Now, we have enough data to make some meaningful comparisons – and this public spotlight seems to be paying off.

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Workplaces on notice for gender pay gap 'reality check'

The latest data on gender pay gaps in Australian workplaces shows progress is being made, but there is still a long way to go to close the divide.

AAP

Men almost twice as likely as women to earn high salaries in ‘reality check’ on Australia’s gender pay gap

Workplace Gender Equality Agency report shows a slight increase in number of women in highly paid roles, which are still dominated by men

The Guardian - AU

Canada’s ethnic and racial wage gap rivals it’s gender gap — but gets a fraction of the policy attention

Canada has spent decades confronting the gender pay gap, enacting legislation and building public awareness around the fact that women earn about 84 cents for every dollar men make. That gap persists because of systemic barriers, and is wider for women who face multiple forms of discrimination.

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I’ll Be Retired Before the Gender Pay Gap Closes, Yet Millennial Women Like Me Are Told to Have Kids Sooner. How Are We Meant to Afford That?

Millions of British women are effectively working almost 50 days a year for free

Marie Claire

UK’s gender pay gap ‘won’t close for 30 years’ at current rates

Trades Union Congress says women have worked a month and a half for nothing this year and legislation is needed

The Guardian - UK

Women losing £2,548 a year to pay gap, TUC says

Women have effectively been working for free for the first month and a half of the year compared to men, says the TUC General Secretary

The Independent UK

Confident about retirement? It depends on your gender

Years of gender pay gaps, part-time work and caring for others have left Australian women with smaller nest eggs facing a more uncertain future, research shows.

AAP

Gender pension gap across Europe: How much less do women receive?

The gender pension gap in Europe is wider than the gender pay gap, exceeding 30% in several countries.

Euronews

Big Brother’s Bruce Claims He’s A Changed Man After Controversial Gender Pay Gap Chat

" I am not the most informed on the matter, but heavy convo after heavy convo kind of gets old pretty quick."

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Female GPs not immune to chronic gender pay gap malady

Female GPs in Australia are earning up to 10 per cent less per hour than their male colleagues, driven by longer consultation times and associated rebates.

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Men earn nearly $10,000 more than women in bonuses and overtime pay, fuelling the gender pay gap: new data

Men are earning on average A$9,753 more than women each year in the form of performance bonuses, allowances and overtime pay.

AAP

Employers efforts recognised as gender pay gap narrows

Australia's overall gender pay gap has narrowed, but among CEO's there has been an increase - showing the need for further commitment at top levels.

The Guardian - AU

‘Progress is happening’: gender pay gap narrows but Australian women still earn $28,000 less than men

Western Australian employers reported the biggest pay gap and Tasmanian employers the smallest, but all states reported an improvement, study finds

The Conversation

The gender pay gap looks different depending where you are on the income ladder

Despite decades of progress, the gender pay gap remains a persistent feature of the UK labour market. According to women’s rights charity the Fawcett Society, November 22 marked Equal Pay Day 2025 – the day when women effectively stop getting paid due to the wage gap with men.

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Women working 'for free': gender pay gap not narrowing fast enough, says study

As of Monday, 10 November, women in France are working for free through the end of the year, according to an annual report that uses the exact day and time that men start being paid more than women, based on salary statistics, which show the gender pay gap is narrowing…

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Lifetime impact of gender pay gap costs women millions

The financial cost of the gender pay gap accelerates across a woman's lifetime and peaks in her late 50s, with an eye-watering amount of missed earnings.

Euronews

Underpaid? The highest and lowest ranking sectors for employee pay satisfaction in Europe

Is the Netherlands an employee haven? Are construction workers better off than most others? What's the uncomfortable truth about worker pay in Finland? A new survey reveals where workers are happiest with their pay.

Evening Standard

Share of low-paid workers in UK hits record low while gender pay gap narrows

Data from the Office for National Statistics also showed that average earnings have risen this year.

The Independent UK

AI could widen gender pay gap in some sectors – research

Industries such as logistics, utilities, private equity and creative arts could be affected, researchers suggest.

The Conversation

US women narrowed the pay gap with men by having fewer kids

Women in the U.S. typically earned 85% as much as men for every hour they spent working in 2024. However, working women are faring much better than their moms and grandmothers did 40 years ago. In the mid-1980s, women were making only 65% as much as men for every hour…

Euronews

Academic research shows UK gender gap underestimated in official data for decades

The gender pay gap in the UK is more than twice that of France and Spain. New research suggests the gap is one percentage point higher than official figures.

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