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Unequal pay for women

  • Denial of right to equal pay for women

Nature

The gap between male and female earnings, although in a few countries narrowing somewhat in the wake of legislative efforts, has generally remained distressingly large, even for workers with roughly similar qualifications. It is now evident that this gap is due mainly to the concentration of women in the lower-paying occupations and industries rather than to men and women being paid differently in the same or similar jobs. Women are concentrated in the lower-paying occupations because these are sex-segregated keeping most men out, while the higher paying occupations tend to keep women out. On-the-job training to improve skills is biased towards males as well. Unequal pay for women is very evidently the tradition in many developing countries.

Claim

No major battle has been won. Economic inequality is greater than at an time since records were kept, and women are the most unequal.

Related

Strategy

Reference

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #1: No PovertySustainable Development Goal #5: Gender EqualitySustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Subject
  • undefined » Deprivation
  • undefined » Women
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    Last update
    Jan 30, 2025