Research Into The Gender Pay Gap Shows Australian Women Are Earning 23 Per Cent Less Than Men

New data shows that Australian women are earning 23 per cent less than men; they take home nearly $27,000 less than their male colleagues.

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) surveyed 12,000 employers and four million employees, as reported by the ABC.

After analysing the data, WGEA found full-time female employees took home $26,853 less than the average male employee between 2015-16.

It gets more alarming the higher up in the chain you climb. At top levels of management, the salary difference rose to $93,884.

23.1% - new full-time remuneration gender pay gap in favour of men. Read key findings from our 2015-16 here: https://t.co/I1adW0DrTN pic.twitter.com/WHF5j3hREW

— WGEA (@WGEAgency) November 15, 2016

Libby Lyons, the director of WGEA, said the information collected shows that "bias and discrimination" are the primary drivers of Australia's gender pay gap.

"I think in 2016 we shouldn't still be talking about a pay gap," she said.

She was particularly disappointed to find that five out of six CEOs are men, and three out of four board directors are men. However, Ms Lyons is remaining positive about the future.

The official gender pay gap is 23.1 per cent, which indicates a 1.6 per cent decrease.

Ms Lyons thinks this is to do with the fact that organisations are beginning to recognise that gender inequality is a real, completely theorised and non-fabricated problem.

They've realised, as Ms Lyons says, "that it is not fair that women are paid less than men and are actually taking their own action to do a gender pay gap analysis".

"This year, for the first time, our data shows that over 70 per cent of employers have policies in place to improve gender equality."

Well, at least that's promising?

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