Mandatory pay gap reporting is key to achieving workforce gender equality in the global health sector

This year’s Equal Pay Day in the UK is 22 November. The UK based Fawcett Society, which campaigns for gender equality, reports that the nation’s mean gender pay gap based on hourly pay is 10.7% among full time workers. In other words, 22 November is the date when women effectively start working for nothing until the end of the year, as compared with their male colleagues.1 So, why does this matter for the global health sector?In 2019 the World Health Organization highlighted the lack of women’s leadership in health, even though women constitute over 70% of the global health workforce. The WHO report advocated for more inclusive leadership, not only for social justice reasons but also to strengthen health systems.2 Tackling gender related wage inequalities is integral to building more inclusive health sectors—yet we’ve still seen a reversal of some earlier progress.3The gender pay gap measures the difference in earnings…
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