Failing to live up to the promise

The Politics of Equal Pay in ‘New’ Workplace and Industrial Relations Institutions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6234450
AutoresFiona Macdonald (0000-0003-1966-0810, RMIT University, autor de correspondencia), Sara Charlesworth (0000-0001-6975-9283, RMIT University)
Año2018
Volumen53
Número4
Páginas446-462
Fecha de publicación2018-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361146.2018.1502256
OpenAlexW2884054996
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas11

Workplace and industrial relations regulations are key sites for policy intervention to address Australia's gender pay gap, which, at 15.3 per cent, is almost as large as it was in 1997. In both the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth) the goal of equal pay has a more central place than it did in predecessor legislation. In particular, the Fair Work Act has the potential to deliver more gender-equitable wage structures through addressing systemic gender-based undervaluation at the industry level. Adopting a feminist institutional approach this article examines equal pay policy in the operations of workplace and industrial relations regulation to ask why, despite some recent successes, this potential appears unlikely to be realised

Economics · Gender equality · Gender pay gap · Gender relations · Intervention (counseling · Labour economics · Legislation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Wage · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Industrial Relations