The 'gender pay gap', is fiction. It counts employment income all females and all males, of working age, including zero income. So a stay at home mum is compared to a brain surgeon. a lady working 15 hours a week as a lawyer is compared to her male co-worker working 80 hours a week. It also doesn't include the 'free money' from divorce, alimony, maintenance, etc. Please stop perpetuating lies.

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Absolutely agree Arjay. The "Gender pay gap" is wrongly named and wrongly used to push a narrative that takes us nowhere in helping women or men. How about explaining the "gap" properly and considering the real societal trends beneath it rather than pushing it only as some comprehensive failure of fairness.

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The "gender pay gap" is absolute rubbish. Men work higher paying jobs and more dangerous jobs than a LOT of women - mining, forestry, fishing, construction etc., not 'childcare' and 'retail sales assistant'.

When I worked in State Government, EVERYONE at a particular classification was paid THE SAME, thanks to the Union Award. That didn't take into account the fact that some worked harder and longer hours than others, some did a lot of travel away in remote areas. That was usually the men.

Let's focus on something else instead - men die earlier than women from preventable or treatable cancers, yet get a quarter of the health funding that is spent on women's. How is that fair ?

Since 2003 women's health research received more than $833 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council, compared to less than $200 million for men.

Breast cancer received $60 million more than prostate cancer and ovarian cancer $64 million more than testicular cancer.

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