Child and care commitments cited in Gateshead Council's 10% gender pay gap

B.C. government says provincial gender pay gap seeing 'modest improvement'

The B.C. government recently released its second annual pay transparency report. The Ministry of Finance says that "modest improvements" in gender pay equality were made, but organizations championing gender equality say more needs to be done.

Child and care commitments cited in Gateshead Council's 10% gender pay gap

Gateshead Council's women and girls committee has explored the underlying causes of its gender pay gap

U.S. labor market data reveal that different job characteristics contribute to the gender wage gap

Overview In 2003, women in the United States earned on average approximately 80 percent as much as U.S. men did per hour. By 2024, the gender pay gap had grown to 84 percent, after peaking at around 86 percent in 2022. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1 Yet the gender wage gap is not equal across all occupations in the U.S. labor market. Female financial service sales agents, for example, currently make 52.7 percent of their male counterparts’ earnings o…