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Malcolm Turnbull recently
became Australia’s 29th Prime
Minister. New government
= new policies. The timing
for a campaign about equal
pay couldn’t be better. It is
time for us to take a stand and
get our new PM to commit to
closing the pay gap. Despite
making up 46 per cent of the
workforce and 60 per cent of
university graduates, women
still earn 18% less than men.
Now ain’t that just a whole
lot of bullshit?
It means men are going
to pay off their HECS debt 18
per cent faster than women.
It means that straight out of
uni, male graduates will be
paid $3,000 more. And it also
means that in our lifetimes,
we’ll earn on average a mind-
blowing $700,000 less than
men. Just because we were
born with innie genitals.The worst part is that
the gender pay gap is getting
worse! At the start of this year
it hit a record high , and we’re
sick of just quietly accepting it.
“I really don’t want my
daughter to earn less than my
sons, it’s a simple message,”
says Tanya Plibersek, Deputy
Leader of the Opposition and
former Minister for the Status
of Women. “Women are doing
better than their mothers and
grandmothers. We have more
choice and more autonomy in
our lives, but the fact that we
still have this increasing pay
gap shows that there is still
inequality in our society.”
We’ve decided to shake
shit up, and we need your help!
Cosmopolitan is petitioning the
Australian government to
make company-wide gender
pay gaps for all individual
organisations public.For the past two years,
companies have reported their
pay gaps to the government.
That information isn’t made
public, though, and a lot of
companies won’t do anything
to fix the gap without outside
pressure. It’s clear that change
isn’t going to happen until we
all know where we stand.SO, LADIES, IT’S
TIME TO GET MAD.
Head to Change.org/Cosmo
EqualPay to sign our petition,
and spread the word. Bitch
about the pay gap on FB. Join
our celeb supporters and ’gram
a pic of yourself saying HELL
NO to the pay gap. Heck, put
it in your Tinder profile!
Because nothing will
change till we show Australia
we’re not going to accept 18
per cent less of anything.TRACEY SPICERBRENDAN COWELLust imagine you’re renting out your apartment on Airbnb for
$100 a night. The holidaymaker turns up and tells you they’ll
only pay you $82 because you’re a woman. You’d be outraged,
right? So why – when this happens to our pay packets every
month – are we so complacent? Where’s the outrage? We all
agree it’s unfair. Maybe we all assume someone else is going to
do something about it. Well that someone is you. Us. Now.OCTOBER 27 IS
THE DAY WOMEN
EFFECTIVELY STOP
GETTING PAID,
WHILE MEN KEEP
GETTING PAID UNTIL
THE END OF THE YEAR.
So we think it’s about time
we give you something back.
Log on to Cosmopolitan.com.au
on October 27 to get 18% o
the following amazing brands:
Reid Cycles, Fashion Bunker,
SumoSalad, ModelCo, Saint
Jerome, Crabtree & Evelyn,
Guzman Y Gomez, Topdeck,
Le Tan and more.Based on a 2.5 per cent interest rate, it’ll take
women nearly four years longer than men to
save up a $100,000 deposit for a house. That’s
bad enough, but then just think of how much
rent they’ll save in those extra four years, and
how much faster those guys will be able to pay
o their house... That $3,000 di erence may
not sound like a huge deal now, but that gap
just gets bigger. Research shows that right
now only 2 in 10 single women in Australia can
a ord to comfortably retire, while 5 out of 10
single men can a ord to when the time comes.And the
problem just
gets worse as
time goes on.
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