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.
Foreword
The OECD has long promoted gender equality in labour markets, society and at home. Recent reports in the OECD’s Gender Equality at Work series illustrate that countries have, in recent years, implemented many policies that have helped to close gender gaps in the labour market. Yet women continue to lag behind men in most economic outcomes: women are less likely to be in the labour force than men, women earn less on average, women are less likely to advance to leadership positions, and – reflecting accumulating inequalities over the life course – women face a higher risk of old-age poverty.
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