A 22 per cent gender pay gap at Hancock, versus a 15 per cent for all miners, is the temporary result of getting more women into the industry, Gina Rinehart says.
Iron ore magnate Gina Rinehart says a push to bring on more female truck drivers at her Pilbara mines to help them enter the industry has made Hancock Prospecting’s gender pay gap worse because they are some of the company’s lowest paid roles.
Most mining and resources companies have said their pay gaps are due to women opting out of working fly-in, fly-out roles at remote mines because they are more likely to have domestic and family duties than men. These are some of the industry’s highest-paid roles, because of the sacrifice and long hours they entail.
“But gain experience, and then we offer them pathways to more senior positions and opportunities from there.” WGEA data shows that women make up 44 per cent of the bottom quartile of earners at Hancock, but just 24 per cent of its entire workforce. Women account for 13 per cent of the top quartile earners.
Bianca and Allegra Spender’s fashion house Carla Zampatti was one of the few companies where median pay for women outstripped men, to the tune of 19.8 per cent.
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