The Australian Federal Government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency says it is all about “promoting and improving gender equality in the workplace” and says it has published employer gender pay gaps for the first time, but what are some of the criticisms?

The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has published its “Employer gender pay gaps” for the first time, and you can read the data here, with the separate WGEA Data Explorer here, too.

The “pay” methodology attracted a lot of criticism, about measuring “gender”. What are we actually measuring?

In a radio interview with Dr Nataliya Ilyushina by Radio 2CC’s Stephen Cenatiempo, both made some very interesting observations in what I think is a must-listen discussion, which is embedded immediately below.