On a road never cross'd 'cept by folk that are lost.....

Ross Gittins asks - Is Australia as egalitarian as we think?  In terms of income and employment, our cities are becoming so polarised that the paths of the well-off and not well-off rarely cross.

http://media.smh.com.au/business/businessday/gittins-is-australia-as-egalitarian-as-we-think-5708231.html

The quote in the title of this post is from

Banjo Paterson's very popular poem: A Bush Christening 

You might also like to read this article by Ross Gittins >>>

Why almost all of us are 'out of touch'

Women to pay much more than men for their degrees?

Picture of Jane Caro from here.
 
Here is why. Women graduates already earn an average of $1m less than their male peers across their lifetime. And that’s for a bog-standard BA! They earn less for all sorts of reasons, including taking time out to have children, cutting back to part-time work when their kids are small, and the persistent 17% pay gap between male and female full-time workers. Oh, and that’s at the bottom end of the earning scale. There is evidence that shows the higher up the earnings ladder you go (and graduates as a whole earn an average of $1m more in their life than non-graduates), the larger the wage gap between male and female earners.  Read the whole article here.