I was reading a useful article on the gender pay gap in Australia which points out;
'The latest gender pay gap report has revealed a woman is paid, on average, $18,000 less than a man over a year.'
Source: Workers reluctant to return to the office may intensify gender pay gap, lawyers warn
It pointed out injustice in base pay rates which I strongly support being addressed, however where things appear to me to get a little more tricky is with the issue of equalising the pay of for example working mothers who can't do much overtime with men who are doing lots of overtime.
On the one hand if we were doing away with wages completely and replacing them with a universal basic income I could see the point of all pays being equalised, however if one intends to keep the wage system in place it seems to me strange to do it lopsided.
The reason being is because it seems to me that the whole point of wages is to encourage workers to work longer hours. So if you have a woman working base hours getting paid as much as a man working lots of overtime where is the encouragement for career women for example to work just as many hours as their male counterparts?
Your thoughts?
'The latest gender pay gap report has revealed a woman is paid, on average, $18,000 less than a man over a year.'
Source: Workers reluctant to return to the office may intensify gender pay gap, lawyers warn
It pointed out injustice in base pay rates which I strongly support being addressed, however where things appear to me to get a little more tricky is with the issue of equalising the pay of for example working mothers who can't do much overtime with men who are doing lots of overtime.
On the one hand if we were doing away with wages completely and replacing them with a universal basic income I could see the point of all pays being equalised, however if one intends to keep the wage system in place it seems to me strange to do it lopsided.
The reason being is because it seems to me that the whole point of wages is to encourage workers to work longer hours. So if you have a woman working base hours getting paid as much as a man working lots of overtime where is the encouragement for career women for example to work just as many hours as their male counterparts?
Your thoughts?