Young women are leading changes in systemic problems that affect the culture of the workplace, while young men are biased more conservative, says an expert.
According to the gender equality agency in the workplace (WGEA), there is a gender wage gap of 21.8 percent in Australia, which means that women earn 78 cents for every dollar they earn.
It is equivalent to women who earn an average of $ 28,425 less every year.
He says that many factors are to blame, including discrimination and bias in hiring and payment decisions, disproportionate participation of women of unpaid care and domestic work and industries and jobs dominated by women and jobs that attract lower salaries.
But there has been a change in recent years.
The founder of Future Women, Helen McCabe, attributes this to a growing number of young women entering the workplace and refuses to tolerate forms of inequality.
“Younger women are definitely promoting reform in organizations because they will not bear what the older generations of women support,” he said.
“The older generations of women are thinking ‘it was not so in my day and it is not all that, you should simply overcome it and move on, it is not so bad, it really did not mean anything for that.’
“It is a really interesting moment that we are having and the conversation is quite fascinating.”
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However, WGEA has reported that progress to end the gender wage gap is happening after 56 percent of employers improved their disparity in the 12 months until March.
And, as changes are made, young workers are no longer guaranteed privileges that have been accustomed to seeing older men, McCabe said.
“The structural foundations of society have always been the children who get work, receive more salaries, marry a woman who has children and perform the work that stays at home. They are more likely to get the promotion and that more prone to administer the company and more likely to administer the country,” he said.
“That has changed and is no longer automatic. If you add quotas or objectives to the mixture, and you are a talented young man in a law firm, you face talented young women in a law firm at this time.”
Future women expect to change that and help men and women navigate for workplaces.
“I think that one of the things we do in Future Women is really to take the opportunity to bring men to the conversation and help them be better leaders of men and women, and that improves work in the workplace for all,” McCabe said.
Within a room in one of the events of the organization there are women from the public and private sectors in industries such as finance, businesses and politics.
“I find that when we are in the room, that combination is really powerful,” said McCabe.
Until now, she said the answer has been “incredible.”
“They are hungry for more content. They have more opportunities to connect,” said McCabe.
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