Editing Equal pay for equal work (section)

===Australia===
{{Main|Gender pay gap in Australia}}
In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights started to recognize equal pay for equal work.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Equal pay handbook|url=http://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/pdf/sex_discrim/equal_pay.pdf}}</ref> The Equal Remuneration Convention was released in 1951 by the International Labour Organization. The convention stated that it recommends jobs to be classified according to the nature of the work rather than who is performing the work. Women and men participated in protests, calling the government to fix the 1951 convention and make equal pay the law in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McIntyre |first=Iain |date=2023-11-18 |title=Jean Young, Kath Williams and the Fight for Equal Pay |url=https://commonslibrary.org/jean-young-kath-williams-and-the-fight-for-equal-pay/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref> Industrial action in some industries set a precedent for change, such as the national granting of equal pay for hotel workers in 1968 by the Federal arbitration commission following stop work meetings and a coordinated strike the previous year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McIntyre |first=Iain |date=2023-11-18 |title=Jean Young, Kath Williams and the Fight for Equal Pay |url=https://commonslibrary.org/jean-young-kath-williams-and-the-fight-for-equal-pay/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=The Commons Social Change  Library |language=en-AU}}</ref> In 1969, there was a case brought to the ACAC by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union against the  Meat and Allied Trades Federation. Workers argued for equal pay for every employee and the ruling of the commission was that the general female award minimum wage at 85 per cent of the male wage. This decision helped equal pay for women who were working the same job that traditionally the men would do, but all the other women got the 85 per cent. In 1972 the decision was reassessed and rules that either women or men who are working at a similar job that has a similar value, are eligible for the same working rate.<ref>{{Cite web|last=corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent|first=Acton Peninsula|title=National Museum of Australia - Equal pay for women|url=https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/equal-pay-for-women|access-date=2020-11-22|website=www.nma.gov.au|language=en}}</ref>

Under Australia's old centralised wage fixing system, "equal pay for work of equal value" by women was introduced in 1969. Anti-discrimination on the basis of sex was legislated in 1984.<ref>Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, {{cite web |url=http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/women.html |title=About Australia: Women—Towards Equality |access-date=2014-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206144556/http://dfat.gov.au/facts/women.html |archive-date=2012-02-06 }}</ref>