Australian women are about to find out just how wide the gender pay gap is. Prepare for a rude shock

‘Even world poverty is improving faster than Australia’s progress on the gender pay gap.’ Photograph: Mironov Konstantin/Getty Images

There are things slower than Australia’s progress on closing the gender pay gap.

Our CO₂ emissions per capita, for example, have been declining at 2% a year, on average, over the last decade. The age-standardised imprisonment rate of Indigenous Australians has actually increased over the same period.