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- THE GAY PAY GAP: MEN EARN LS, BUT WOMEN EARN MORE
- REARCH FDS GAY PAY GAP IN ATRALIA
- REARCH FDS GAY PAY GAP IN ATRALIA
- GAY PAY GAP: THE IMPACT OF ORIENTATN ON SALARY & EARNGS GROWTH
THE GAY PAY GAP: MEN EARN LS, BUT WOMEN EARN MORE
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01amA new dimensn of workplace discrimatn has been exposed: the gay pay gap.
REARCH FDS GAY PAY GAP IN ATRALIA
Atralia's first study of how sexual orientatn affects wag has revealed gay men get paid up to 18 per cent ls than their straight paper's thor, Universy of Melbourne enomist Andrea La Nze, says the only apparent explanatn for the "substantial wage penalty" suffered by gay men is prejudice.
REARCH FDS GAY PAY GAP IN ATRALIA
"The ma take-home msage om the paper is that Atralian workers dog the same job seem to be paid differently bee of their sexual preference, " she fdgs are nsistent wh studi Europe and the US which have also intified a "robt and persistent" wage penalty for gay men. "There are grounds for ncern that workers Atralia, particularly gay men, are discrimated agast bee of their sexual orientatn, " Ms La Nze's paper wage dispary between gay and straight men intified by Ms La Nze's mollg is strikgly siar to the genr wage gap – the long standg gulf between average full-time earngs of men and women. However, Ms La Nze found the negative pay gap experienced by gay men relative to heterosexual men do not apply to gay women.
GAY PAY GAP: THE IMPACT OF ORIENTATN ON SALARY & EARNGS GROWTH
Instead gay women enjoy a wage premium of up to 13 per cent pared wh heterosexual women.
Ms La Nze says one possible explanatn is that gay women are reward bee their employers have a perceptn that they are ls likely to leave the workforce to have children than heterosexual women.
Overseas studi other have also intified a most wage premium for gay La Nze ed data om the Hoehold Ine and Labour Dynamics Atralia (HILDA) survey to pare the wag of heterosexual and gay workers between 2001 and 2010, takg to acunt factors like occupatn and levels of tn. "I hope that the next paper I see on the issue fds that gay men do not face a wage penalty.