Reducing gender wage inequality increases economic prosperity for all: Insights from Australia

Kennedy, Tom D.; Rae, Maria; Sheridan, Alison; Valadkhani, Abbas

doi:10.1016/j.eap.2017.04.003

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“…However, Australian organizations remain highly gender segregated by both industry and occupation, perpetuating the inequality in the workforce (Blackburn et al, 2002; French and Strachan, 2015; WGEA, 2016a). Occupational segregation by gender is perceived to be the cause of labor market rigidity and economic inefficiency (Kennedy et al, 2017) and has implications for women relating to level of earnings, employment opportunity, and more broadly, their access to decision-making positions in the workplace (French and Strachan, 2015). With a growing demand for skilled labor and the importance of international competitiveness of Australian organizations, gender equality is high on the government’s agenda (Conway, 2012: 15).…”

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Effectiveness of gender equality initiatives in project-based organizations in Australia

Baker

Ali

French

2018

Australian Journal of Management

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Little is known about the impact of workplace gender equality initiatives in improving women’s representation. We assess their effectiveness on levels of women’s representation in Australian property and mining organizations. Derived from signaling theory, we propose and test a positive relationship between gender equality initiatives and women’s representation at management and non-management levels. Derived from contingency theory, we propose and test the moderating effect of women in top management teams on the abovementioned relationships. The hypotheses were tested using archival data from 358 organizations with a 2-year time lag. The findings partially support the main and moderating effect hypotheses. We discuss theoretical, research, and practical implications. JEL Classification: M12, M14

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Effectiveness of gender equality initiatives in project-based organizations in Australia

Baker

Ali

French

2018

Australian Journal of Management

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“…Of the 26 articles, 15 (and 1 book chapter) focused on issues relating to women and work overall (rather than reporting on studies of specific groups of women), including pay equity, gender wages gap and the valuation of ‘women’s work’ (Cook et al., 2017; Kennedy et al., 2017; Smith and Stewart, 2017); care work (Anxo et al., 2017); superannuation and pensions (Sheen, 2017); women in leadership and on boards (Ahmed and Ali, 2017; Chandrakumara et al., 2017); intersectionality and diversity (Murray and Ali, 2017; Ressia et al., 2017); paid maternity leave (Hondralis, 2017); the impact of education on labour market outcomes for women (Wyn et al., 2017); health and well-being (Ambrey et al., 2017; Clark et al., 2017; Dinh et al., 2017; Hickey et al., 2017); work–family conflict (Abeysekera and Gahan, 2017); and precarity (Sheen, 2017). A further 11 articles reported on studies of particular occupations, industries or age cohorts (Crofts and Coffey, 2017; Dwyer et al., 2017; Gacka, 2017; Godwin et al., 2017; Gregory and Brigden, 2017; Majeed, 2017; Marks, 2017; McLoughlin, 2017; O’Loughlin et al., 2017; Ovseiko et al., 2017; Redmond et al., 2017).…”

Section: Parliamentary Publications: Hansard Of the Federal House Of mentioning

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“…Several academic articles provide much-needed nuance and detail to the statistical data reported above and about key characteristics of women’s engagement with the labour market. Kennedy et al. (2017) conduct a longitudinal analysis (1986–2013) of the relationship between labour productivity and the gender wage gap in Australia.…”

Section: Parliamentary Publications: Hansard Of the Federal House Of mentioning

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Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2017

Kaine

Boersma

2018

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Throughout 2017, public interest, parliamentary debate and academic research about women, work and industrial relations centred around a few key themes: pay and income inequality, health and well-being at work and the intersection of paid and unpaid work. These themes were identified in three related yet distinct mediums: the media, parliamentary debate and academic literature. Automated content analysis software was used to assist in the thematic analysis of media articles and the House of Representatives Hansard, supplemented by a manual analysis of relevant academic publications. A thematic overlap was evident across the three datasets, despite the time lag associated with academic research and publication. This is a significant finding, emphasising that the inequalities experienced by women in the labour market are long term and entrenched.

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“…Lower wages for women (Van der Vleuten 2007) were related to employment in the private sector (He and Wu 2017), profession (Buchmann and McDaniel 2016), region (Weinstein 2017), marriage and fertility delay (Caucutt et al 2002), educational attainment (Popli and Yilmaz 2017). Decreasing gender inequality in wages could lead to an increase of productivity in the long run (Kennedy et al 2017), and therefore many policies were set and implemented with the objective to decrease the inequality (Borland and Coelli 2016). Gender equality is also one of the goals of the European Union, and it is guaranteed by the Charter of Fundamental Rights.…”

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Unemployment gender inequality: evidence from the 27 European Union countries

Faďoš

Bohdalová

2018

Eurasian Econ Rev

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Gender inequality is persistent in the labor market despite equality between genders being one of the fundamental principles of the EU law. This is a reason why we have decided to analyze gender inequality in unemployment rates of the 27 European Union countries. Unemployment gender inequality differs across EU countries. There are countries where gender gap is persistent, but there are also countries where gender gap changed during the observed period of 2005Q1-2017Q2. Moreover, in some countries gender inequality decreased, while in others it was steady. Unemployment rates differ across countries similarly as unemployment gender inequality does, therefore, by choosing these countries, we have obtained a portfolio of distinct behaviors throughout the time. We have also obtained the relations between them. We test the hypothesis of the hysteresis to check the relation between the unemployment gender inequality and the unemployment rate levels, gender disadvantaged through unemployment gender inequality and the unemployment rate levels. This hypothesis was tested for both univariate and panel data country series. We could not reject the hypothesis of the hysteresis in univariate country series using a battery of GLS unit root tests proposed by Carrióni-Silvestre et al. (Econ Theory 25:1754-1792, 2009. However, ILT test of Im et al. (Oxf Bull Econ Stat 67:393-419, 2005) rejected the hypothesis of the hysteresis for panel data of the European Union countries. Finally, the relationship between unemployment gender inequality and disadvantaged gender in inequality depends on the country analyzed. This result suggests that further analysis is needed to identify * Marina Faďoš

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Reducing gender wage inequality increases economic prosperity for all: Insights from Australia

Cited by 29 publications

References 37 publications

Effectiveness of gender equality initiatives in project-based organizations in Australia

Effectiveness of gender equality initiatives in project-based organizations in Australia

Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2017

Unemployment gender inequality: evidence from the 27 European Union countries

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