Digital marketing most reliant on foreign talent while women’s salaries still lag study finds
Jodie Sangster: “There is a significant skills gap.”
The Australian marketing industry leads the nation in relying on overseas workers, the latest Digital Industry of Australia skills and salaries survey has revealed.
The report revealed the digital industry has 10% of staff employed on 457 visas, well ahead of the Australian national average of just 1%, while it also showed average salaries for women were still substantially lower than for men.
AIMIA has also revealed massive divide in salaries between the sexes, with the median salary for women 15% lower than men, while women represented 42% of the industry compared with the ‘all industries average’ of just over 40%.
This is another reason why Internet Australia believes we need a Digital Future Forum to create a bipartisan long term plan for Australia to become a serious player in the emerging digitally enabled global economy. All this rhetoric about innovation will come to nothing if we don’t follow the lead of countries like Singapore and Israel and take the party politics out of this issue. https://www.internet.org.au/news/92-30-june-2015-internet-australia-calls-for-a-digital-future-forum
Getting bored of this pay divide ‘debate’. We all need to modernize our information, and stop confusing correlation with causation. There’s still a small pay gap between the genders when you normalise for all factors, and that’s certainly not good enough. But it’s not right to say that it’s just because women are women. As Freakonomics points out, the main cause for pay gaps is through people choosing professional flexibility – whether they’re men or women. The real solution for gender equality in the workplace lies with men. Men need to better understand their role and women’s role in family care.
Innovation nation, don’t make me laugh.
Innovation stopped in Australia with the Hills Hoist…
Why are women’s wages less than men’s? I do not get it? I work for a firm and from what I understand wages are set based on the job title and of course based on experience and what the candidate / member of staff brings to the business. Gender doesn’t come into it? Why are women’s wages less than men? How are they? How has it got to this?
There is a lot of research showing that women earn less than men for the same work. Never mind points around flexibility or the like. Latest study from Curtin University
http://m.smh.com.au/business/w.....n92au.html