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Australia: "Female graduates earn $5000 less than men"

Minuteman - Fri, 2013-01-04 01:39

Link here. Excerpt:

'"It is very disturbing that men's starting salaries have increased over the past year but those of women have not, especially given that women make up the majority of university graduates," the research executive manager at the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Carla Harris, said.

"The lesson here is that the gender pay gap continues to have a very real impact on the bank balance of young women starting their careers."

The pay gap was most pronounced for those working in architecture and building, dentistry, optometry and law.

However, female computer scientists, earth scientists, pharmacists and engineers were amongst those women who earned slightly more than men.

Only education, humanities and medicine had no gender pay gap in starting salaries.'

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We should move immediately to address...

Matt - Fri, 2013-01-04 02:32

... the disparity in salaries for men in the computer sciences, earth sciences, and engineering fields!

That's a radical thought.

And in all seriousness, is the disparity attributable to what jobs females are (or are not) willing to take vs. those of men? Particularly in law where a starting associate is expected to work his/her keister off to the tune of 80+ hrs./wk. all so the partner they work for can rake it in. Who is willing-- and expected-- to put in the extra time to earn the bucks in such a position? Is it the young women or the young men? Has any of that in terms of expectations changed?

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