On the one hand, women have always been a part of the art world—adorning ancient vases or smiling serenely from Renaissance paintings. However, this does not reflect the current actual ...

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VEDANTAM: There's one interesting difference between the gender wage gap in the arts compared to many other fields, Steve. Many other fields see what's called a motherhood penalty.

Despite this, the art world still has an undisputable gender pay gap problem. Work by female artists continues to sell for a fraction of the price received for comparable works by male artists.

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Japan ranks bottom among all G7 nations — and 116th out of 146 countries — in the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Gender Gap Index. “Art museums and galleries must both consciously ...

For every £1 fetched by a male artist's work, one by a woman gets just 10p - and even worse - the value of a painting increases when a man signs it and decreases when it's woman's name on the canvas.

This gap translates to a loss of approximately $1,400 per month, or $17,000 annually for mothers. Over a 30-year career, this could amount to as much as $510,000 in lost wages.

Georgie McClean, the executive director for development and partnerships at Creative Australia, said addressing the gender pay gap for artists was challenging.