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gender pay gap

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Also known as gender wage gap

average difference in remuneration amounts between men and women

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Encyclopedic overview

Gender wage gap in the OECD

The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are employed. In most countries, women are paid less than men for the same work.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gender pay gap” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.