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It's too soon to celebrate a narrowing gender wage gap

  • Written by Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
imageWomen working full-time earn on average $26,527 less than men each year.Shutterstock

The gender pay gap is trending downward. It has fallen from 24.7% to 22.4% in the past four years, in terms of total remuneration, according to the latest gender equality scorecard.

But it’s not time to pop the champagne cork. The decline that we’re...

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