Australia’s tenacious pay gap

06 December 2010Forty-one years after the declaration of the principle of equal pay, we’re still not there, writes Norman Abjorensen in Inside Story

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WOMEN have had the vote in Australia for more than a century, and discrimination on the grounds of sex or marital status has long been illegal in defined areas such as employment, education and the provision of goods and services. And yet, despite all these apparent gains in the pursuit of equality, women continue to earn less on average than men…

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