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ITUC Global Gender Wage Gap Report

ITUC Global Gender Wage Gap Report. ITUC Asia Pacific. International Women's Day panel organized by the ILO on 7 March. Global Union message on pay equity and the role of collective bargaining in reducing the gender pay Gap Presentation of the ITUC’s Gender Wage Gap Report.

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ITUC Global Gender Wage Gap Report

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  1. ITUC Global Gender Wage Gap Report

  2. ITUC Asia Pacific

  3. International Women's Day panel organized by the ILO on 7 March • Global Union message on pay equity and the role of collective bargaining in reducing the gender pay Gap • Presentation of the ITUC’s Gender Wage Gap Report

  4. Visualizing the global pay gap

  5. Visualizing the European pay gap

  6. ITUC GlobalGender Wage Gap Report • Worldwide pay gap of 16.5%; • More educated women face a bigger pay gap compared to men with similar education; • Trade union membership has a positive influence on the gender pay gap.

  7. Belgium

  8. Global data 2 • Pay gap is higher in female-dominated work environments than in typical male dominated work environments • Results generally more positive in Europe, Oceania and Latin America, with Europe taking the lead • Data deficiencies in a number of countries, particularly across Africa and Asia

  9. Montenegro

  10. Global data 3 • Europe - • Average pay gap of 14.5 per cent • Overall decline in pay gap over the last decade • Job segregation by gender has a negative effect on pay gap (i.e. UK) • Americas - • North America: lack of official data • Larger pay gap in Canada (27.5%) & USA (22.4%) than world average • Latin America: mixed picture due to large informal economies

  11. Global data 4 • Oceania - • Pay gap lower than world average: • Australia 14.1% & New Zealand 13.8% • Mixed picture on progress • Africa - • Insufficient data • Asia - • Pay gap significantly higher than world average • Large variation due to the nature of individual country labour markets and quality of official data, i.e. Bahrain (-40%), Japan (33.4%), Mongolia (16.1%) and Sri Lanka (7.3%)

  12. Spain

  13. Methodological issues • Defining the gender pay gap • Calculating earnings • Availability and reliability of data • Sample size/response rate • Type of employee • Data collection

  14. Next Key Dates of the Campaign 2008-2009 • 7 October:ITUC World Day for Decent Work • 25 November:UN Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women • 8 March 2009

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