Quality Insights magazine volume 11

Take steps to implement equal pay for women

While most companies claim to pay women and men the same, the gender gap is still close to 23% on a worldwide level, reaching an average of 16.2% in Europe (source: Eurostat). This creates a lifetime of income inequality between women and men, and more women are retiring into poverty.

This inequality persists in all countries and sectors, as there is still the culture that women’s work is undervalued and they tend to be concentrated in different jobs than men.