Yet another Rosie inspires me!
This Rosie is the child of Australia’s Equal Opportunity in the Workplace Agency. Here, she is raising awareness about Equal Pay Day, in Australia the day when women’s wages finally catch up to men’s for that financial year. The gender pay gap in Australia is 17 per cent.
In 2009, Equal Pay Day was September 1. This means that while men worked the last financial year from July 1 2008 to June 31 2009, it took women until September 1 to ‘catch up’ and earn the same amount of money. Of course, women never really catch up, as the average gender pay gap illustrates.
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