{"id":40471,"date":"2020-09-17T17:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/?p=40471"},"modified":"2020-09-29T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:07:15","slug":"250-years-needed-to-bridge-the-pay-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/250-years-needed-to-bridge-the-pay-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"250 years needed to bridge the pay gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the current speed, it will take more than two hundred and fifty years until women and men receive equal pay. Today, 25 years after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, where countries around the world committed themselves to ensure \u201cequal pay for equal work\u201d, no country has yet achieved gender parity in wages.<\/p>\n

On 18 September, the United Nations celebrates its first-ever International Equal Pay Day<\/a>\u00a0to build momentum around the urgent need to address the gender pay gap.<\/p>\n

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Equal payday\u2026 in year 2277<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Beijing<\/p>\n

During the Fourth World Conference on Women on 4 to 15 September 1995 which was concluded with the historic\u00a0Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action<\/a>, governments around the world committed themselves to \u201cenact and enforce legislation to guarantee the rights of women and men to equal pay for equal work or work of equal value\u201d. According to the World Economic Forum\u00a0Global Gender Gap Report<\/a>, issued on 17 December 2019, it will not be until the year 2277 that women, on average, can expect equal pay for work of equal value.<\/p>\n

Globally, a woman\u00a0earns 77 cents every time a man makes a dollar<\/a>, in\u00a0the European Union a woman gets 84 cents every time a man is paid an euro,\u00a0<\/a>and progress on narrowing the pay gap is slow. And\u00a0evidence<\/a>\u00a0suggests\u00a0that\u00a0progress in closing the gender pay gap may stall or reverse due to COVID-19 and its fallout.<\/p>\n

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Together for Gender Parity in Wages<\/strong><\/p>\n

On 18 September, the first-ever International Equal Pay Day<\/a>\u00a0sheds light on the achievements and the ongoing efforts to be made to ensure that no woman is economically punished for being female.<\/p>\n