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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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Pay reporting for gender equality

This chapter offers an overview of the report Reporting Gender Pay Gaps in OECD Countries: Guidance for Pay Transparency Implementation, Monitoring and Reform. 55% of OECD countries (21 out of 38) at the national level now systematically require private sector firms to report their company’s gender pay gap to stakeholders like workers, their representatives, the government, and/or the public. Many of these reporting schemes are embedded in extensive equal pay auditing systems. While pay reporting requirements show promise in closing gender pay gaps, their design and implementation matter. The coverage of pay reporting requirements, communication of reporting rules, regular enforcement of reporting, digital tools to facilitate reporting, and requirements for follow-up action have tangible consequences on whether pay reporting rules do in fact help close the gender gaps they target.

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