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Australian companies have improved their gender pay gap compared to last year. But new data, covering more than 10,000 employers confirms progress on narrowing the divide is slow with more than half of workers employed in sectors dominated by one gender.

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00:04We're all working hard.
00:06I'm the most luckiest woman probably alive.
00:08You never really know what's going to hit you on any given day.
00:12New data shows the gender pay gap is getting narrower.
00:16At 11.2% it's down 0.9 percentage points from last year.
00:22It means, on average, an Australian woman earns 88.8 cents for every dollar a man takes home.
00:29We want to see these numbers reduce and we're pleased that the rate of reduction is accelerating
00:35so more employers have a lower gender pay gap.
00:38This is not about equal pay for equal work. That's the law and has been for decades.
00:43The gender pay gap is about average earnings
00:46and it's affected by women doing more part-time work, taking on more caring responsibilities
00:51and working more in industries that don't have salary boosters like bonuses.
00:56Some of our biggest employers are close to eliminating the gap, like the supermarkets.
01:02But others, like the big four banks, are still all above the national average.
01:08More than half of the 5.9 million workers covered by the data are employed in a gender dominated industry
01:15where more than 60% of people are men or women.
01:18There is something very productive and important that comes from diversity
01:22that people from different backgrounds and experiences bring to it.
01:26I'm not here to please anyone else or please any man or anyone else.
01:31I'm just there to be me and to do the job I do.
01:35A gender gap profitable for all of us to fill in.
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