The gender pay gap is baked into the labour market, with freshly minted female graduates in their early 20s earning $3000 a year less than their male contemporaries less than six months after finishing their course, a national survey has found
By the time they reach postgraduate level, the men on average earn $13,000 more than women with the same qualification, a difference of 12.4 per cent.
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