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Pay gap for women widens
MEDIA RELEASE
12 October 2005
Pay gap for women widens
The Council of Trade Unions is dismayed by the recently released New Zealand Income Survey, which shows a widening gap in the income between men and women.
The NZ Income Survey for the June 2005 quarter, released by Statistics New Zealand, shows that pay for full time men went up approximately 6.3% since the June 2004 quarter, compared with 3.2% for women. The rates for male part time workers increased by 8%, as compared to 2.8% for women. Overall, this means that the gender pay gap has increased – with women earning 82% on average of what men do, as compared to 86% in 2004.
“The growth in the gap is significant and is a huge concern,” said Helen Kelly, Vice President of the Council of Trade Unions. “While workers will be pleased with the overall increase of 5.8% to wages and salaries since June 2004, what these figures show is that women did not get an equal share of those increases.
“The Government has set up a pay equity taskforce to address the pay gap in the state sector and these latest figures show the need to extend that work to the private sector also” said Helen Kelly.
ENDS
Note: The New Zealand Income
Survey (NZIS) is run annually as a supplement to the
Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) during the June quarter
(April to June). Further information about the survey is
available at:
http://www.stats.govt.nz/products-and-services/info-releases/nzis-info-releases.htm
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Te Kauae Kaimahi
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
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