Reporting Gender Pay Gaps in OECD Countries
Guidance for Pay Transparency Implementation, Monitoring and Reform
Pay transparency policies are gaining momentum throughout the OECD. Over half of OECD countries require private sector firms to report their gender pay gap statistics regularly to stakeholders like employees, employee representatives, the government, and/or the public. Gender pay gap reporting, equal pay audits and other pay transparency policies help advance gender equality at the workplace, as these measures present up-to-date information on a firm’s gender pay gap, encourage employers to offer equal pay for work of equal value, and give individual workers and their representatives valuable insights to fight for pay equity. This report presents the most thorough stocktaking to date of gender pay gap reporting policies and evaluations across OECD countries, and offers guidance to countries interested in introducing, reforming and monitoring their pay transparency systems to promote equal pay for women and men.
Executive summary
The gender wage gap persists in every OECD country. Full-time working women earn, on average, only 88 cents to every dollar or euro earned by full-time working men. Decades of public policies and legal efforts in education, labour markets and social protection systems have helped to narrow the gap, but governments and employers must work even harder to overcome the negative income effects of horizontal and vertical segregation, inequalities in unpaid work, and discrimination against women.
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