Even Uber has a gender pay gap
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Amid the booms, downturns, rallies and slumps of the past 20 years one economic indicator has remained remarkably constant: the gender pay gap.
The wage premium in favour of Australian male full-time workers compared with their full-time female counterparts has been hovering between 15 per cent and 19 per cent since the mid-1990s.
Lately there’s been speculation that new technologies and the rise of the gig economy might narrow the disparity.
Male Uber drivers earn 7 per cent more per hour, on average, than female Uber drivers.
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Look at the way that gig economy icon, Uber, works, for instance.
Work times for Uber drivers are flexible, a factor that should favour women. There are no pay negotiations because all jobs and fares are determined by a gender-blind algorithm. The rate of pay is tied directly to output.
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