Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap

Artikel

Despite equal pay legislation dating back 50 years, American women still earn 22% less than their male counterparts. In the UK, with its Equal Pay Act of 1970, and France, which legislated in 1972, the gap is 21% and 17% respectively, and in Australia it remains around 17%. Thus, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2014 ; Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Value of Life; Forgone Income ; Labor Discrimination ; Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
• Subject: gender ; wage inequality ; human capital

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Polachek, Solomon W.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2014

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.15185/izawol.16
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125241
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET