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Introduction
An article written by political reporter Henry Belot explores how the gender pay gap is a consistent and worldwide issue affecting women in the workforce. The article entitled “Gender pay gap: Australian women could be paid less than men for another 50 years” is an opinion piece published by ABC news on the 26th of July 2017 demonstrating the concern for women especially over the next 50 years and is directed towards employers, businesses, and politicians. Two images are incorporated into the article the first depicting an image of a woman working on her laptop and the second visual image is a graph portraying a list of countries affected by the issue of the gender pay gap. The two images are in support of the contention as they demonstrate the issue of gender pay gap through contrasting ways.

1 Key Argument + Image 1

The author of the article Henry Belot explores how the gender pay gap will be a consistent issue for women in the workforce over the next 50 years demonstrated in a concerned manner. This is exhibited in the quote “a young women entering the workforce today could retire before earning the same amount of money as a male colleague,” expressing the idea that the issue of the gender pay gap is apparent and is an unjust concern. Belot establishes the issue of the gender pay gap through the use of inductive reasoning in the sense that he expresses a general prediction or understanding of the issue. Henry Belot indicates the detrimental effects of the gender pay gap towards women in the workforce and directs his message towards businesses, politicians, and employers. The author’s message intends to convince and inform businesses, politicians, and employers of the gender pay gap concern to emphasis and raise awareness on the issue to those who have the ability to make changes.

Alongside the issue of the gender pay gap is an image of a women working on her laptop. The image is a portrayal of inferiority due to the high angle shot looking down upon the female in the image. This is in support of the idea that women in the workforce have an unfair advantage in comparison to men and are seen as inferior which is an appeal to justice and equality as it intends to seek sympathy and pity from the reader and organisations that possess power and influence over the issue. The accompanying photograph exemplifies the issue of the gender pay gap and is in support of the article in a similar manner.

Key Argument 2 + Image 2

Henry Belot begins his article in an informative tone conveying how the gender pay gap is global issue affecting women in the workforce. This is depicted in the quote “The analysis estimates that Australia is 50 years away from closing the pay gap, with some countries as far as 300 years away.” This expresses the idea that the gender pay gap is a consistent and current issue around the world today. Belot establishes the issue through the use of the persuasive device, deductive reasoning whilst also appealing to equality. Henry Belot positions the audience to become aware of the global issue and its level of severity as it affects various countries, he directs his message towards businesses, politicians, and employers. Accompanying henry Belot second argument is a supporting visual in the form of a graph, that is a depiction of countries affected by the gender pay gap across the years and demonstrates the length of time (in years) it will take for the gender pay gap to be abolished. Australia is placed in the 50-year period. The image portrays a combination of concern with an informative tone with a sense of optimism. The intended impact of the visual demonstrates that if historic trends continue, the pay gap would eventually close in and both genders would receive equal pay, the author uses this to create a sense of hope for women. The graph further supports the argument as it gives closer insight to the global issue at hand. As well as displaying the amount of time in years until equality is established.

Argument 3
Henry Belot concludes the article by establishing a call for change as women are under represented at the top of the bureaucracy exhibited in an optimistic and hopeful manner. Demonstrated in the statement "the report also revealed the pay gap between top-tier female and male managers had narrowed slightly from $100,000 to $93,000." This quote demonstrates a sense of hope and a call for action towards businesses, employers and politicians. Through the article, Belot establishes the importance of a call for change to minimize the issue of the gender pay gap. The author aims to provide a sense of hope and urgency to make a change.

Overall, Belot’s opinion piece contends that the gender pay gap is a concern for woman for the next 50 years. With a forceful but concerned tone Belot directs his statement towards government, businesses and politicians about the issue. He supports his argument by providing an image that demonstrates female employees being inferior in comparison to men in the workforce. Belot also provides statistical evidence of a graph to demonstrate the issue as a Global concern which has affected other countries. In the concluding statement, Belot includes a call for change to make a difference.

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Introduction
The gender pay gap controversy has been an outstanding issue for many decades. Political reporter Henry Belot’s opinion piece titled “gender pay gap: Australian women could be paid less than men for another 50 years”, published in July 2017 for ABC, highlights the concern for Australian women regarding their wages over the next 50 years. The article features both a photograph and a statistical graph each highlighting the gender wage gap on both a local office and global scale. Aimed at political leaders the articles calls for change and movement in hope of an equal future.
Key Argument 1
In a concerned tone Belot expresses his frustrations when presenting the facts that Australian women will continue to struggle with unfair pay for another 50 years. Belot uses a strong appeal to justice when stating “young women entering the workforce today could retire before earning as much as a male colleague”, in order to further highlight and support the need for change within the issue. Belot further makes his message prominent that the gender pay gap is a degrading issue for both women and the country of Australia. He intends to instill awareness and shame into the minds of the politicians of Australia.
Image 1

To support this argument, Belot presents us with a photograph looking down on a woman working on a laptop. This image when put into the context of the argument that it is supporting has an equal parts explanatory and accusing tone. The image shows that the woman is working hard, which when put into the context of the larger argument creates the connotation that no matter how hard she works, she will still be less valued then a male employee. Further emphasizing this feeling is the way in which the camera looks down upon her, further conveying the feeling on inequality. He hopes to use this photograph to further the feeling of shame created in the last argument in order to further drive his point home.
Key Argument 2
Belot shifts from concerned to frustrated as he begins his argument on how the gender pay gap is a global issue. To demonstrate this Belot includes “research by global law firm White & Case which warns gender pay equality could be 100 years away in the United States, Italy and France” using the evidence from this research to convey his message that the gender pay gap is a persistent global issue. Belot hopes to show that while the gender pay gap is solvable, if nothing is done it is likely to continue as an issue for a long time yet.
Image 2
Supporting this is an infographic displaying amount of time it will take to solve the gender pay gap in a number of different countries. The statistical evidence helps to validate the claims made in his second argument and the data functions to show the pay gap in an easy to understand manner, creating an appeal to equality. The length of time shown at each marker grows exponentially giving the image a tone similar to frustration, but the very fact that there is a foreseeable end date tinges this frustration with hope. By utilizing these factors, Belot hopes to convey a sense of hope that the issue can be solved and the belief that the gender pay gap is something the whole world faces.
Key Argument 3
In his final argument Belot tone switches from the constant negatives of most of his argument to one that conveys a sense of hope. In this argument, Belot uses an appeal to  justice and urgency when he says  "[women] are under-represented at the top of the bureaucracy where there is more influence and pay.", giving weight to his call to action. When added to the information from the previous arguments, his message that there is an achievable means to bring this to an end becomes even stronger. With this argument Belot hopes to drive people with the ability to do so to promote women in the workplace or to change both country and company policy to encourage the promoting of women.
Conclusion

Henry Belot attempt to address his concern that women could be paid less than men for another 50 years makes for a convincing piece. He uses many appeals to a sense of justice and the like, but can also back up these appeals with statistical evidence. Further adding to this, both the graph which provides evidence and the photograph which helps set the context increase the strength of his argument exponentially. From this combination of factors Belot manages to make a highly convincing opinion piece that argues his point.

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Introduction
The issue of the gender pay gap has concerned the public, bringing to their attention that women have been underpaid and will continue to be underpaid for the next 50 years. Written in the ABC NEWS on the 26th of July, by political reporter Henry Belot, the opinion piece on ‘Australian women could be paid less than men for the next 50 years’ explores the issue of the gender pay gap both within Australia and worldwide. Targeting at politicians and employers, Belot furthers his contention with the use of imagery, a photograph and statistical evidence in the form of a graph. The photograph depicts a woman at work being look down upon through the use of a high angle camera shot, complementary to this there is a graph showing the predicted expanse of time in which the gender pay gap with be resolved across numerous countries.
Key Argument 1
In a concerning tone, Belot begins his opinion piece by stating that women could be payed less than men for the next 50 years. Through the use of the quote ‘a young women entering the workforce today could retire before earning the same amount of money as a male colleague’, Belot utilises the device of inductive reasoning to position politicians, employers and others in the working community to realise the significance of the gender pay gap, and how it concerns Australian women for the next 50 years. The motives behind this argument are to raise awareness of this issue to those who have the authority to make a difference, and motivate them to do something about it. Belot positions politicians to feel ashamed and as though they are the ones to blame for the issue
Photograph
The article is supported by an accompanying photograph. This image helps to depict the perceived inferiority of women, as it uses a high camera angle to show a woman at work, this represents that women are ‘looked down upon’ in the work place, and therefore considered to be inferior. Both the photograph and Belot express a concerning tone towards the gender pay gap, and how women are perceived as being less than men in the workforce. This concept is the foundation of the issue; the gender pay gap.
Key argument 2

In an informative tone, Belot continues his argument by introducing the idea of the gender pay gap being a global issue. Through the use of factual evidence in the quote ‘the analysis estimates that Australia is 50 years away from closing the pay gap, with some countries as far as 300 years away’, presents to politicians and employers that the gender pay gap is an international issue that requires multiple forces to correct. The use of this factual evidence, presents a scale to those working or have potential to fix the issue by depicting where Australia is on the global spectrum. Australia, compared to many other countries, is estimated to be only 50 years away from closing the issue. Belot expresses to politicians and employers, that although Australia is closer than many countries to closing the pay gap, being a westernised culture the gender pay gap is still a shameful issue that should be addressed urgently.
Graph
Supporting the argument of the gender pay gap being a global issue, Belot includes the use of a graph to demonstrate to readers, politicians and employers exactly where Australia sits compared to other counties. This graph depicts the predicted expanses of time at which various countries will close the gender pay gap, and shows that Australia sits in the 50-year period. The use of this graph supports this argument, as it shows how the gender pay gap is a global issue, and demonstrates the position in which Australia is in with reducing the issue, when compared to other countries.

Belot concludes his point of view, with a call to change, and sense of hope in closing the gender pay gap. Throughout Belot’s last argument he shifts from an informative tone, to a tone of hopefulness. As evidence, Belot provides the politicians, employers and readers of ABC news with statistical evidence stating ‘A WGEA report published in March revealed the gap between men and women’s salaries dropped from 23.9 per cent in 2015 to 23.1 per cent last year’. By using statistical evidence, Belot proves to the readers of ABC news that there is hope for women, as there has already been proof of decreasing gaps, in previous years. This positions women to feel as though, there are people out there fixing the issue and that there is a possibility for it to become resolved overtime. Belot then continues by turning the focus towards politicians, to spread awareness and to demonstrate the issue of the gender pay gap and to inform those, that it is a serious issue but there is hope for it to be resolved.

Henry Belot’s overall opinion piece ‘Australian women could be paid less than men for the next 50 years’ and supporting images are trying to pursue a point across to politicians, employers and Australian women, by continuously reinforcing his arguments about how the gender pay gap is a serious, global issue and that although it is very serious, there is still a sense of hope.

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Gender pay gap is a concerning issue for years to come. The article “Gender Pay Gap: Australian women could be paid less than men for another 50 years” authored by Henry Belot, published on the 26th of July 2017, shows how the gender pay gap could take up to potentially 50 years to close. In the article, there is a photograph of a women working. The infographic shown within the article depics the gender pay gap for women all over the world for the next 50 years. The intended target audience for this article are Australian Politicians and working women.

Henry Belot begins by arguing that women could be paid less for the next 50 years. In a concerned tone, Belot begins his argument with evidence that states “young women entering the workforce today could retire before earning the same amount as a male colleague”. Belot uses an appeal for justice and inductive reasoning to get his message across that there is an overwhelming concern on the issue and that it needs to be solved very soon. Belot intends to make political personnel feel ashamed and to make the reader feel angry towards the Australian Government.

The first photograph within the articles supports the first argument of women will be paid less for the next 50 years. Belot’s uses the photograph in a demanding and demeaning tone to support his argument of women will be paid less for the next 50 years. In the photograph, the high camera angle looking down at women working on her computer depicts how women are inferior to men within the workforce. Henry Belot began by arguing that women could be paid less for the next 50 years and the photograph supports that if its demeaning tone and message. The photograph is an appeal to equality, in contrast to the first argument which is a concerning tone. The intended impact for this photograph is to show women that they are inferior to men within the workforce and to evoke anger within the working community. This supports as Belot’s wanted the reader to feel ashamed and angry within the first few paragraphs.

Secondly, Belot argues that the gender pay gap is more of a global issue rather than a Governmental issue. Supported by the infographic, evidence shows that even though the pay gap may be large for Australia, countries such as Germany and South Korea could take up to 300 years compared to Australia’s 50. This appeal to the society and world uses an informative tone, in order to make the intended audience of Australia people feel ashamed, as we are a western country and need to act quicker than others. The intended impact is to let politicians with power know that there is a serious problem in the country and the world.

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Introduction
The gender pay gap is an ongoing issue in both the Australian community and on a global scale. The article “Gender pay gap: Australian women could be paid less than men for another 50 years”, written by Henry Belot in July of 2017, published by ABC News, states that the gender pay gap is a concern for women for the next 50 years. Accompanying the article are two visuals, being a photograph and a informative graph. The photograph depicts a woman working on a laptop, whilst the graph depicts multiple country flags on a gradually increasing line with yearly intervals. The target audience for the article and two visuals are politicians, and the employers of businesses.

Key Argument 1
Belot starts his article with a defining key point – that women could continue to be paid less than men for the next 50 years. Belot approaches this argument with a calm and emotionally driven tone. To follow up, Belot uses expert opinions and factual evidence to increase the legitimacy of his argument. A quote from The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) states, “[the gender gap] would not be solved overnight”. In this quote, common sense is utilised as a persuasive device to engage the reader. Director Elizabeth Lyons provides an analysis stating that “Australia is 50 years away from closing the pay gap, with some countries as far as 300 years away”. Belot’s message behind this is that the pay gap isn’t a new issue and has been around for too long of a time, and will continue to stay in Australia for an estimate of 50 years if it isn’t acted upon. The intended impact behind this is to position politicians and the like, to realise the impact of the pay gap and to potentially minimise the estimated time of 50 years.

Photograph
Accompanying Belot’s first argument is a photograph. This photograph depicts a woman working on a laptop from a high camera angle. The tone that is conveyed from this is concerned and belittling, similar to that of the written article. What this photograph implies with its high camera angle and aiming over the shoulder point of view is the inferior sense of a female in the workplace compared to a male. This photograph supports Belot’s first argument of the article as it relates to the theme of inequality in workforce pay. The supporting evidence is closely linked with the quote “it would not be solved overnight”, as it is evident from this photograph in its lighting and choice of including a coffee cup in the shot, this photograph was set at night. The intended impact behind this photograph is to spread awareness on the pay gap, and to emphasise how women can feel due to this ongoing issue – that women could continue to be paid less then men for the next 50 years, as compared with Belot’s intended impact, also aiming to spread awareness to politicians.

Key Argument 2
Belot’s second argument makes the point that the gender pay gap is a global issue, and affects more than just Australia. A concerned and informative approach in tone is used by Belot to appeal to the reader. Belot acquires facts and statistics from trusted sources to prove the point being made, as director Elizabeth Lyons quotes “it could take up to 300 years to achieve pay parity in South Korea and Germany”. The massive figure of ‘300’ acts as a persuasive device to the reader, as it is 6 times bigger than the original figure of 50 years in Australia. Belot’s message behind this is that although the pay gap is 50 years away in Australia, it is even further away in other countries around the world. The intended impact behind this is to compare with other countries such as South Korea and Germany to emphasise the severity of the pay gap in Australia.

Infographic
The graph depicts and implies the expectancy in which countries will take to achieve pay parity. It can range from 20 years such as Greece, all the way up to 300 years in countries such as Germany and South Korea . From this we gain factual evidence from the trusted source, being the PwC Analysis via Eurostat, as it gives further information as to other countries across the globe, in comparison to the second point made by Belot. Similar to the article, the intended impact on this key argument is to compare countries which will ultimately emphasise the pay gap on a global scale. As a whole, this infographic goes hand in hand with the authors second main point on the global severity of the pay gap.

Key Argument 3
The final point made by Belot on the pay gap is actually a call for change. As a tonal shift occurs, Belot uses a hopeful tone to state what has been done in the past to diminish the pay gap, as well as what could be done in the foreseeable future. As evidence to support his call for change, Belot states that “the federal public service has devoted significant resources to improving gender equality in recent years”. Examples of this contain “cultural training” and “blind recruitment”. In order to persuade his audience, Belot uses the federal public service as a trusted and well-known agency, as well as using examples in order to create a realistic visualisation of how the pay gap can change. The message that Belot conveys through this argument is that there is in fact a sense of hope in the topic of pay gap as the federal public service has proven. As for Belot’s intended impact, he attempts to provide a glimpse for politicians and the like, on how the gender pay gap could be diminished.

Conclusion
To conclude, the article “Gender pay gap: Australian women could be paid less than men for another 50 years” written by Henry Belot July of 2017, published by ABC News, states that the gender pay gap is a major concern for women. Belot raises

three thorough concerns in the piece, that the pay gap is a concern for women for the next 50 years, that the pay gap is a global issue, and lastly a call for change in terms of the pay gap. Accompanying the article are two visuals, being a photograph and an infographic. Proven from this article, the gender pay gap is a serious issue around the world, and Belot hopes that this can change.