Gender pay gap activists have had an exciting few weeks, especially with the new statistics showing these gaps at the level of individual companies, at least those with more than 100 employees.

The stats were produced by the Workplace Gender Equity Agency (WGEA).

With so much activist exhilaration around, an important 30-year anniversary was overlooked – the publication of the ABS Average Weekly Earnings (AWE) statistics on February 22 of this year.