The Gender Pay Gap

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency is an Australian Government statutory authority which aims to improve gender equality in Australian workplaces.
The Agency is responsible for administering the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012, which puts a focus on promoting and improving gender equality outcomes for women and men in Australian workplaces.

One of the large issues WGEA pursues is the gender pay gap issue. The latest report was released January 2013 and can be found here.

The report itself was published in several Australian papers; however, like most of the feminist gender issues, proper debate has not been opened on the issue.

Looking at the graphs published in the WGEA report it seems absolutely abhorrent that the average female university graduate earns $5000 a year less than the average male graduate. The report itself is poorly written and very basic.

The analysis is industry based and fails to differentiate between private and public sector jobs.

Why is this significant?

The first reason is that 57% of personnel employed by the Australian Public Service (APS) at the APS 1-4 levels are women. The State of the Australian Public Service Report

Secondly the average wage for the APS (below EL), as detailed in the 2011 Mercer report, was approx $8000 a year less than the average private sector wage. Therefore the APS unfair employment policies which employs more women than men (how is this not an equality issue?), has assisted female graduates in being underpaid compared to their male graduate cohort.

The APS underemployment of male graduates is responsible for a large portion of the pay disparity. Further the study has not found a single employer who has underpaid female employees compared to male employees.

If the rational person theory only applies to men - then we can truly say that women are irrational beasts. This of course is not true for a second. Therefore there is an underlying value that is not being accounted for in the WGEA study.

It's time to place value on freedom of choice and remove the ridiculous, poorly crafted, statistics based agenda feminists are trying to weaken their sex with.