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Reporting Gender Pay Gaps in OECD Countries

Guidance for Pay Transparency Implementation, Monitoring and Reform

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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.

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Résumé

L’écart de rémunération entre les genres persiste dans tous les pays de l’OCDE. En effet, les femmes qui travaillent à plein temps ne gagnent, en moyenne, que 88 centimes pour chaque dollar ou euro gagné par les hommes occupés à plein temps. Des décennies de politiques publiques et de dispositions juridiques dans l’éducation, sur les marchés du travail et dans les systèmes de protection sociale ont contribué à réduire cet écart, mais les pouvoirs publics et les employeurs doivent encore intensifier leurs efforts pour venir à bout des effets négatifs sur les revenus de la ségrégation horizontale et verticale, des inégalités en matière de travail non rémunéré et de la discrimination contre les femmes.

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