Australian tax data is absolute proof of the gender pay gap across the entire economy

‘Across the economy, traditional women’s work is valued less than men’s but across all occupations women mostly earn less than men.’ Photograph: Tetra Images/Getty Images/Tetra images RF

The Australian Taxation Office’s annual release of tax statistics cuts right through the talk to let you know how things really are – and above all the numbers show absolute proof of the gender pay gap.

The tax stats provide a mass of data related to every question on your tax returns. As such they reveal quite a lot of information.