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A report showing how the gender pay gap impacts women and men at different ages, and how employer interventions at critical times can reduce the gap and improve the ability of women to earn and save for retirement. It also provides insight into how those same actions could address growing concerns for men, including the lack of flexible work options, a work culture of long hours and unequal access to parental leave.
The report offers an insight into the experience of more than 5.1 million employees across Australia in 19 industries. It finds a key turning point occurs around age 34 where the gender pay gap accelerates.
Critical drivers of this acceleration include:
- a lack of part-time manager roles
- assumptions not backed by evidence that full-time workers are more committed to their jobs or more productive
- bonus and overtime systems that favour men
- recruitment and promotion processes that perpetuate the gender pay gap.
Publication Details
Copyright:
Commonwealth of Australia 2025
License type:
CC BY
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
31 Oct 2025
