Equal Pay Day 1st September 2011 (Employers)
 

Equal Pay Day

 
The concept of pay equity in Australia (equal pay for work of equal or comparable value) is linked with our gender wage gap. This gap between men’s and women’s earnings – 17.2% in 2011 - reflects the differences in women’s workforce participation, their dominance in lower paid occupations and at lower levels in organisations, and more limited access to training and promotion (especially if they are working part-time or on a casual basis). It can also reflect the devaluing of roles traditionally undertaken by women and their contribution in the workplace. EOWA states that Pay equity is commonly defined as "equal remuneration for work of equal or comparable value".

BPW Australia and the ACTU launched the Equal Pay Alliance in 2009 and invited organisations and businesses to demonstrate their commitment to pay equity by joining us a we campaign to reduce this gap.

economicSecurity4Women, a nationally funded alliance, is supporting this year's Equal Pay Day on 1st September by conducting this survey. By completing it you will assist us in gaining valuable insight into measures that could help employers ensure that they have productive and equitable workplaces for all working women.

1. Do you own your own business?

2. What is your gender?

3. Please indicate the number of employees in your business?

4. Please indicate the percentage of your employees who are women

5. Please indicate the percentage of WOMEN versus the number of men who are employed at your organisation in:

(e.g, if your company employs 100 full-time employees and 40 are women, then the percentage would be 40% full-time women)

6. Do you have women in senior decision making roles?

7. How much time would you be prepared to spend to check whether there was any gender-related unfairness in pay in your business?

8. The biggest obstacle to checking for gender-related unfairness in pay in businesses like mine is:

9. If you did find that there was some gender-related unfairness in pay in your business, would you be prepared to fix it by investing up to:

10. In my business rates of pay are set by using:

11. In my business pay records are kept:

12. Pay records are kept by:

13. I would like to access more information on checking pay equity via a:

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