Last week’s New Zealand Income Survey sure led to a lot of headlines. Here are some of them:
- NZ Gender Pay Gap Increases
- Gender pay gap balloons to almost 12% [and the Minister for Women wants to know why!]
- Hourly wages rise, but gender gap back to six-year high
- Human Rights Commission urges action over growing gender pay gap
One simple change could almost halve measured pay inequality. What is it? Have women replicate men’s split between full-time and part-time work. Ok, maybe that’s not so simple. But while there are 7.05 full time male workers for every part-time male worker, there are 1.96 full time female workers for every part-time female workers. And part-timers always earn less than full-timers. Interestingly enough, part-time female workers earn more than part-time male workers – for the obvious reason given those numbers.
If you re-weighted the pay gap using women’s median earnings for full-time…
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