Equal Pay - Still A Big Issue And Needed Today
Thursday, 2 August 2001, 4:00 pm
Press Release: New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance MP Liz Gordon will highlight the issue of equal pay
for women in a number of speaking engagements in Dunedin
tomorrow.
From the first day that women go to work, there
is a gender pay gap. The higher the qualifications, the
higher the average pay and the bigger the gap.
Even
though individual women may do very well, there are signs
that the pay gap is widening overall, especially in the high
paying parts of the state sector. This is despite the fact
that women have outperformed men at nearly all levels of the
education system for a number of years.
Liz Gordon
Itinerary 3 August 2001 - Dunedin
8pm 'Empowerment'
Women's Week Breakfast Otago University Students Association
Clubs and Societies Centre Albany St Dunedin
12pm Liz
Gordon will present her paper (co-authored with Missy
Morton) 'Women - well educated and poorly paid: Gender pay
discrimination in the public service' University Staff
Women's Caucus Evison Lounge Clubs and Societies Centre
Albany St Dunedin
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