If you haven't heard of the gender pay gap, here's the deal: On average, men working full-time earn 17.9% more than women who also work full-time.
This latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has been collected by workforce diversity specialist Conrad Liveris and it's pretty confronting, right?
Liveris calculated the gap by looking at "median wages" data, which means comparing how much the average woman takes home compared to the average man. It does not adjust for inflation.
According to the data, if a woman were to start full-time work aged 20, and retire at 65, she would earn a total of $649,818 less than a man whose career had been just as long.
Now, that's obviously a shitload of cash. But what exactly could women afford to buy, if the gender pay gap didn't exist?
With an extra $277 - remember, this is how much more the average dude earns every week - ladies could buy five bottles of Moet.
They could buy seven of Kylie Jenner's Lip Kits, weekly.
They could buy over 100 McDonald's cheeseburgers. If they wanted.
Or see nine movies in Event Gold Class.
But beyond this week-to-week business, what could women do with their extra $14,440 a year? Well, for a starters they could enjoy every European summer.
Or they could fly Qantas business class to New York City and back, with a spare $3000 spending money.
Now, back to that $649,818 Australian women are missing out on over the course of their careers - what could that buy them? Well, for starters, it could get them 62 years of university education.
It could buy them a two bedroom apartment in Sydney's Surry Hills.
Or a three bedroom house in Perth's Fremantle.
WOULDN'T IT BE MAGICAL?!?!
And beyond that... fair?
