Equal Pay Day: Universities must close the gap, union says

By Jeannie Rea. Victorian and Western Australian universities are amongst the worst employers when it comes to the gender pay gap for general staff, according to figures for 2012 released by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) in the lead up to Equal Pay Day tomorrow (Tuesday).
“Across the country the gender gap stands at 8.7% when taking the 2012 full time rates of men and women employed as general staff in Australian universities. This is around half the Australian industry average of over 17% but shows we still need to do more to close the gap within our higher education institutions,” NTEU President Jeannie said. Universities should be exemplars of best practice when it comes to gender equality, according to Rea. More...