International Women's Day provides an ideal opportunity to highlight a key economic area where more still needs to be done to achieve equality: the gender pay gap.
8 March is International Women's Day. It is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, but also an opportunity to highlight some of the challenges faced in trying to achieve gender equality, including in the workplace.
A key issue, and one that research suggests may have been aggravated by the pandemic, is the gender pay gap: the disparity in pay rates between men and women. To highlight and address continued inequality, many governments worldwide have introduced obligations on employers to report on how men and women are paid in their organisations.
Ius Laboris lawyers across the globe have collaborated to produce a gender pay gap map. The map provides information on where employers have direct or indirect reporting obligations in relation to pay rates for men and women.
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