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"Artists all over the world, regardless of their gender, earn considerably less
than professionals in occupations requiring similar levels of education and
qualifications.
But there’s an additional income penalty for artists who are female.
In an analysis of gender differences in the incomes of professional artists in
Australia that we undertook in 2020, we found the creative incomes of women
were 30% less than those of men.
This is true even after allowing for differences in such things as hours
worked, education and training, time spent in childcare and so on. This income
penalty on women artists was greater than the gender pay gap of 16% experienced
in the overall Australian workforce at the time.
Some sectors of the arts have tried to redress this problem. However, women
continue to suffer serious and unexplained gender-based discrimination in the
artistic workplace.
Cultural differences are also known to influence pay gaps in many countries.
In new research out today, we considered whether cultural factors might also
affect the gender pay gap of artists in Australia. In addition, we analysed the
gender pay gap for remote Indigenous artists for the first time."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
