Women's average hourly wagea as a percentage of men's average hourly wage Gender Pay Gap

They continue to be paid less than men for the same jobs, even in OECD countries, where the average gender wage gap is about 16 .

In July 2002, New Brunswick convened a Wage Gap Roundtable to look at the wage gap in its entirety and to identify its causes and possible solutions.

The gender gap in schooling remains a concern.

But, since 1996, the political gender gap has been halved.

In 2004, the wage gap in New Brunswick was 15.5 percent based on average hourly earnings.

The Global Gender Gap Report 2006 ranked Sweden as the number one country in terms of gender equality.

In February 2002, an independent task force on pay equity created a report entitled Working Through the Wage Gap.

The wage gap within organizations that have implemented pay equity under the policy framework has been reduced for those organizations.

To maintain price competitiveness, the gap between Greek wage growth and the rise in Greek productivity i.e., output per employee hour must not be greater than the gap in other eurozone countries.

Not a single Democrat has won the White House without a substantial gender gap.

Convention No. 100 The wage gap and statistical data. In a direct request of 2004, the Committee continued its discussion on the manner in which policies and reforms were facilitating the access of women to posts of greater responsibility and are contributing to narrowing the wage gap between men and women.

Moreover, it is clear that northern European countries could help to close the competitiveness gap more rapidly by encouraging faster wage growth.

Mr. O'Callaghan (Ireland) said, with reference to questions on the gender based pay gap, that wage determination in Ireland, unlike in much of the rest of Europe, involved a combination of free bargaining and a national agreement between employers' organizations and the trades unions.

The raw wage gap data shows that a woman would earn roughly 73.7 to 77 of what a man would earn over their lifetime.

Based on the methodology used in the agreement, there has been a significant reduction in the wage gap between female and male dominated positions.

Parliament had since 1992 tried to close the wage gap by adopting four year action programmes for gender equality, and as a result, the number of women in the police force and prison management and in political office had risen by 8 to 10 per cent.

Discrimination in the work place is illegal in many countries, but some see the wage gap between genders and other groups as a persistent problem.

In the 1980 election, a different gender gap emerged, with women more likely than men to support Democrats.

Between 1990 and 2009, the gender pay gap remained within a narrow range of between 15 and 17 .

Improving water and sanitation facilities in schools could help in reducing the current gender gap in school enrolment.

Recent Statistics Canada reports show that the wage gap has been reduced for full time female workers in Ontario by approximately six percentage points since l987.

Employment of women in the garment industry was reversing this trend to some extent, but the gender gap in education and training indicates that the gap in remuneration is likely to continue.

7 Filling the data gap Gender sensitive statistics for agricultural development, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999.

In reality, however, information from Thailand's Report on the Implementation of the Millennium Development Goal reveals that there is a wage gap of approximately 20 between men and women workers.

A study commissioned by the United States Department of Labor, concluded that There are observable differences in the attributes of men and women that account for most of the wage gap.

At the elementary school level, there was no gender gap between girls and boys, but there was a gap at the higher level of education girls completing high school amounted to only 12.8 percent while boys reached 17.5 percent.

She questioned the delegation's contention that there was no evidence that the gender pay gap was caused by discrimination it was more likely that there had been an insufficient gender analysis of the labour market.

More information would have to be provided in the next report on the actual wage gap in Latvia, and the Government might have to order a special survey to determine the figures.

The Bank's contribution of 60 million to these projects leveraged more than 115 million from other donors. The projects were critical in covering the non wage funding gap for key social ministries.

In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.

PEI has the lowest male female wage gap in Canada for several reasons, one of which is the number of workers who are covered by federal or provincial public sector pay equity initiatives.

The Government also needed to pay close attention to the wage gap of nearly 35 per cent, so that it could adhere to the basic principle of equal pay for work of equal value.

The study also concluded that while in principle more of the wage gap could be explained by differences between the groups, the data that would be needed to account for additional factors were not available.

They could close Japan s salary gender gap wider than in any OECD country except South Korea in part by establishing rules that reward performance rather than seniority.

Japan has not traditionally been a country of immigration, and the World Economic Forum s Global Gender Gap Report, which ranks 136 countries, has Japan in 105th place.

Deeply concerned about the persistence of the gender gap in education, which is reflected by the fact that nearly two thirds of the world's adult illiterates are women,

Deeply concerned about the persistence of the gender gap in education, which is reflected by the fact that nearly two thirds of the world's adult illiterates are women,

Deeply concerned about the persistence of the gender gap in education, which is reflected by the fact that nearly two thirds of the world's adult illiterates are women,

The Foundation produced report cards assessing the progress on closing the gender gap in 10 countries, including Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Uganda.

For calculating the annual wage, the lowest general minimum wage was used.

And, unlike tax incentives, wage subsidies target only employment of low wage workers.

Japan slipped from 80th place in the World Economic Forum s gender gap rankings in 2006 to 98th in 2011, a worrying sign that a critical opportunity is being missed.

The gender gap in access to credit remains a reality in Nicaragua, even taking into account the modest proportion of the overall population which has access to that resource.

The Roundtable submitted its final report in December 2003. Closing New Brunswick's Wage Gap An Economic Imperative recommended that Government develop a five year action plan of voluntary actions and an evaluative framework to measure change over time.