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Tackling Discriminatory Labour Practices, Labour Market Segmentation and Gender Pay Gaps
EC3361 - Labour Economics I
10 Pages • Essays / Projects • Year Uploaded: 2022
The global gender pay gap (GPG) is a symptom of social and economic injustice in the workings of labour markets. One of its main drivers, segmented labour market or occupational segregation, is itself reflected in entrenched discriminatory social norms and practices that are rooted in economic and social institutions. In turn, it is through economic and social institutions that decision making, implementation of laws and policies and the exercise of power take place that influence the realization of women’s economic rights, their economic autonomy and security, the terms and conditions of women’s incorporation into labour markets, the types of jobs women and men take on, and the quality of those jobs in terms of decent work. Consequently, women workers tend to predominate in informal labour markets; they are more likely to take on part time employment; and usually earn less than men even when they perform work of equal value as men. Moreover, women globally do at least 3 times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men. This paper examines the situations in which the factors cited above create and maintain gender pay gaps across the world while exploring trends that explain the key policy dimensions associated with its incidence. Although limited, the available data helps to explain that country income classification differences are important in the consideration of the corresponding solutions designed to address a high gender pay gap. Its conclusions and recommendations are particularly relevant to decision makers in public and corporate institutions.
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