EQUAL PAY DAY 27-8-08

Wednesday 27th August has been declared Equal Pay Day by the Federal Government’s Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) in order to highlight the gender gap in pay equity existing in Australia. Currently, women’s pay is eighty four cents to the man’s dollar for work of equal value. As explained in the EOWA media release, 27th August (being fifty eight days after the end of the financial year) is the day when women doing work of equal value to men catch up, ie receive the same amount of pay as the men. Anna McPhee, the Director of EOWA speaks about this and other issues related to workplace gender equity on Radio National’s Life Matters program on the same day. 

-Jo

Backlash

Kira Cochrane from The Guardian has written some interesting articles about the current state of feminism.

This article on the discrimination of women at work and

This article which discusses the current backlash against feminism.

The WSRC has copies of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities commission papers: ‘Striking the balance: women, men, work and family’ and ‘Its about Time; women, men, work and family’ available from the sex and age discrimination unit.  

Check out our online catalogue to find many resources looking at the current state of feminism. We also have a copy of Susan Faludi’s ‘Backlash’ to give away to an interested reader.

Thank you to Danielle for these links

- Cat