![]() ![]() The longer you live in Anchorage, the more versions you will hear. ![]() Sometimes the victim is a duck hunter who pleaded to be shot, preferring a quick death over drowning. Sometimes the victim is a member of a wedding photoshoot, an attempt for that perfect Alaska background turned tragic. Sometimes the victim is a tourist who strayed a little too far from the trails. From there, victims either drown in the rising tide or are ripped in half by a rope attached to a helicopter. All the stories begin with an unlucky soul wandering too close to the water and becoming trapped in the quicksand-like mud. The deadly mud flats that line Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm and Knik Arm are the setting for some of the most enduring and gruesome Anchorage urban legends. Have a question about Anchorage history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. Part of a continuing weekly series on local history by local historian David Reamer. The mud flats of Turnagain Arm with the Kenai Mountains along the Seward Highway on Thursday, June 9, 2011. "We need to work together to break down gender barriers at work - so that men and women have opportunities to care for their loved ones and participate in satisfying and properly-valued paid work.Updated: 1 day ago Published: July 13, 2020 "The gender pay gap is self-perpetuating, with women more likely to put their careers on the back burner because they earn less than their partners. Ms Kearney said, "Businesses must re-examine their practices and honestly assess the opportunities they do or do not provide to women especially around creating work arrangement that don't penalised them for their caring responsibilities." Our gendered work culture in Australia is persistently discriminatory and employers must analyse their practices. "It's a similar story across many industries and occupations so we need to look very closely at the reasons behind this. That means women are under-promoted by 32 per cent. For example 17 per cent of primary school teachers are men but yet they make up a mighty 49 per cent of principals. "But when you reverse the situation men are more likely to get promoted and will often earn more money. That's a 33 per cent premium just for being male." "In male dominated jobs women have it much worse with similar skill level earning $850 compared to $1133 for men. Ms Kearney said, even in the most female dominated occupation women have a lower median income of $999 per weeks compared to $1150 for men. "Unions have been worried for a long time about the two-prong effect of the 'glass ceiling' at the top where women are still vastly outnumbered in managerial and executive position by men, while also struggling with discrimination, underpayment and outmoded workplace cultures," she said. This data shows even in the same occupation group, with the same skill level women still go home with less." "Employers can no longer hide behind the excuse that women are working different jobs or jobs at different skills levels to men and that accounts for the pay differential. These groups are across all industries and sectors and therefore paint a true and disturbing portrait of how women struggle to get ahead." That means from managers to technicians to sales and clerical, there is no workforce group where the median income for women is greater than for their male counterparts. "Women are paid less than men across every occupational group. Ms Kearney said discrimination was much more wide-spread than most people realised, "In Australia there is a situation where a large percentage of the workforce might as well be standing in quicksand." Men out-earn women in every occupational group in Australia – even in those jobs dominated by women, ABS data analysed by the ACTU shows.ĪCTU President Ged Kearney has called for a renewed push to tackle the 'quicksand effect' where women fall further and further behind on pay and work opportunities for a cluster of reasons including caring responsibilities, lack of skills training, access to overtime and pay bonuses and straight-out discrimination ![]()
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