My great-great-great-great granddaughter will finally receive pay equity (if all goes to current plan). Perhaps we could change this??

Iceland has done it.* Rwanda is 5th on the 2016 World Economic Forum Global Gender Pay Gap Scale, while Australia is ranked 46, down 10 places in 2015. 

Source:Global Gender Gap Index 2016, World Economic Forum

What's going on? 
Current projections are that it will take an average of 118 years to achieve pay equity. 

Using the Gender parity calculator on the WEF website, my outlook isn't even that rosy. And, it seems that things have also been going backwards in the last 3 years.

                                                                             











However, there are some glimmers of hope.  Iceland announced their solution to pay equity this International Women's Day & it's a good one. Icelandic private & public businesses of 25+ people must prove that they offer equal pay to men and women.  This strategy will still take time but by 2022, they'll have equity (they also mandated 40% female representation on boards).  

So what can be done?

Well, we can decide to pay men and women equally.  When you think about it, really stop & think about it, it's hard to explain why there's a difference.  

ANZ created a beautiful, compelling video 'equal future' campaign, where girls are potentially offered less pocket money than boys. The comments from the kids are priceless.  Have a look...  

http://www.women.anz.com/the-conversation/equal-future

The World Economic Forum suggests some other strategies for gender parity below. 

We need to get busy  

I had an incredibly uncomfortable conversation with my daughter this evening talking about why she wasn't going to be paid as much as the boys in her class when she starts working. It's weird, illogical and sickening; made worse because I know it's happened to me.  Her comments were simple, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander - but I want to be a swan anyway."