Yahoo Lifestyle Is There A Gender Pay Gap In Your Company?
Male CEOs call it the lightbulb moment. It's the shift when they start seeing gender equality in a new light and make steps towards redressing gender imbalance in their companies. What is this light bulb moment? Research shows that for many male CEOs, it's when they have a daughter.
As part of their 'In Your Hands' campaign, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has created Daughter Water, a tongue-in-cheek drink formulated from 'Old Wives Tales to help CEOs have daughters and to have light bulb moments of their own'.
In an innovative and cheeky campaign, the WGEA has sent bottles of Daughter Water to more than 3,000 CEOs around Australia who told the WGEA that they have never done a gender pay gap analysis.
Shockingly, the WGEA says that almost three quarters of Australian companies have never investigated their gender pay gap. Fewer than one in five have investigated their gender pay gap in the past 12 months.
This is despite the fact that on average Australian women working full-time are paid 18.1 per cent less than men.
You can head to the In Your Hands website to see for yourself how your company stacks up. How committed is your boss to ensuring that men and women are promoted and paid equally at your company?
The site will tell you whether your company has undertaken a gender pay gap analysis and what, if any, actions have been taken as a result.
Watch the Daughter Water campaign video below, and head to In Your Hands to find out if your company is part of the 75 per cent of Australian organisations that have never investigated their gender pay gap.
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