And this has been debunked several times. As a Gen-X, I have worked in both Federal and State Government from 2005 to 2020, and as a public servant, no one got paid less than someone else just because of their gender - everyone got the same for the same work level classification (regardless of how much work they did or didn't do, or the quality of it, so there was no incentive to do well).

Men get paid more because predominantly, they do the high-paying (yet very dangerous jobs) like construction, open sea fishing, working on oil rigs, mining and forestry.

Women APPEAR to be paid less than men because they're in different types of jobs to men (e.g. childcare or retail) that pay less because of perceived value of those workers (it's a free supply and demand market), and these jobs often don't require the same set of skills (a degree in engineering), don't require as much specialist experience, need less sophisticated skillsets or have less time commitments. I can't ever recall ANY of my male colleagues working "part time" !

That's why.

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The Gender Pay Gap is a myth.

Because if there was, then every employer would hire women only as they can pay them less.

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The gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week. When such relevant factors are considered, the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing

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Agree 100% ! And seeing as how on the ABC we were told by the Greens that "Women are better educated than men" last night...but let's not stop there. How about the inequality in maternity leave ? Women = 18 weeks (at LEAST). Men ? Two.

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There is no doubt that some careers are paid much less than others and many of these tend to be those where the workforce is more often heavily biased to women working in them. More could be done to address those inconsistencies.

However, rightly or wrongly, families are still fairly traditional, when children come along. It is still the norm for men to continue their careers whilst women step back into part time work and more home duties caring for the family. Nothing wrong with doing it the other way round however it seems families in general prefer it this way.

The reality for many women is that they have already finished paid work by 3.56pm each day so of course they are not being paid. WGEA has not identified any systemic issues where women are being paid less for doing the same job as men, the gender pay gap is never going to close if one section of the community is working 40 hours a week and another section is only working 20 hours a week. Of course there will be a gap and so there should be.

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I agree with the above comments. This myth has been debunked. Why would a serious magazine like Money continue to generate heat on this - particularly by using the clock analogy?

I'm assume lots of young women are angry because they take this at face value?

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