Reporting the gender pay gap is not enough to close it

No pay parity: Reporting discrepancies is easy but changing entrenched mindsets to squeeze the pay gap shut is difficult. — Agencies

IS the home stretch to pay parity the hardest? It’s starting to look that way.

Australia became the latest country to make individual companies reveal their gender wage gaps recently. Firms with more than 100 employees will have to report the difference between what men and women earn as part of new equality legislation adopted by the federal parliament. The government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency currently publishes aggregate pay gaps by industry.