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"Worrying trend" identified in pay-gap drivers
Key contributors to the gender pay gap have "moved in different directions" in recent years, and some "worrying trends" are emerging, new analysis shows.
KPMG, Diversity Council Australia (DCA), and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), have analysed data up to 2020 in finding that occupational and industrial gender segregation accounted for 24% of the gender pay gap, up from 17% in 2017.
Further, between 2017 and 2020, the contribution of industrial and occupational segregation to the gender pay gap "moved in different directions", their report shows.
Occupational segregation, which accounted for 8% of the gap in 2017, now accounts for just 4%, while industrial segregation has increased from explaining 9% of the gap in 2017 to 20% in 2020...
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