POLS2603 Lecture 5: POLS2603 Lecture 5
Lecture 5 - Gender and the Global Economy
•Gender pay gap in Aus
•Labour force participation: Aus gender gap is 10.4%
◦global gap is 26.7%
◦Aus has more women + fewer men in the labour force than global average
•Job quality: Aus gap is 27.6%
◦global gap is 10.8%
◦Aus has more men + fewer women in full-time work than glob av
•women work 68.2% of the hours that men work in Aus
•Different between men + women’s earnings:
◦adult total earnings: 18.4%
◦total earnings: 32.8%
▪includes overtime etc.
•variation by state - highest in WA, lowest in Tas/SA
◦different industries prominent - e.g. mining vs public sector
•variation by industry - highest in financial services, lowest in pub admin + safety
•variation by occupational category
•private sector has higher gap
◦pub sector is more reliant on group agreements
•Why is there a gap?
◦Gap is an aggregate measure
◦women’s precarious attachment to the labour force:
▪Women less securely attached to paid work
▪They do less
▪move in + out of labour market
▪due to household labour + reproductive labour
▪gendered div of labour
•women over-represented in part-time + casual work
