Our median gender pay gap is: 11.8% The median hourly rate paid to women is 11.8% less than men. Last year, the gap was 7.9%, so the median gender pay gap has increased by 3.9%. As noted below, the median gender pay gap for all employees in Scotland in 2022, as reported by the Scottish Government, was 12.2%.
The gender pay gap between men and women is lower in Scotland than the UK overall. Data from the Office for National Statistics shows the gender pay gap for all employees in 2022 was 12.2%, lower than the UK-wide figure of 14.9%. Scotland's figure has increased slightly from 11.6% the previous year.
Bills and legislation
The Equality Act 2010 brought together existing equality legislation. It focuses on people with the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, sex, sexual orientation and religion and belief.
The gender pay gap
The 2022 mean GPG (the difference between men's and women's average hourly pay) is 5.45% and the median is 9.71%. In monetary terms, the mean hourly difference in ordinary pay is £1.44 compared to £1.48 in 2021 and the median hourly difference is £2.41 compared to £2.68 in 2021.
Over the last decade it has fallen by approximately a quarter among both full-time employees and all employees. In 2022, the gap among full-time employees increased to 8.3%, up from 7.7% in 2021. This is still below the gap of 9.0% before the coronavirus pandemic in 2019.
In 2021, the gender pay gap in financial and insurance activities varied from 7.0 % in Belgium to 37.5 % in Czechia. Within the business economy as a whole, the lowest gender pay gap was recorded in Sweden (8.6 %) and the highest in Estonia (22.3 %).
Stats. Overall, women are not paid as much as men, even when working full time and year round. On average, women working full time, year round are paid 83.7% of what men are paid. This inequity is even greater for Black and Hispanic women.
German gender pay gap in numbers
In this case, the researchers estimated that in 2022 women in Germany earned 18% less on average compared with their male counterparts. Men made an average of €24.36 ($25.94) gross per hour across all sectors, while women earned €20.05 ($21.35) per hour before taxes.
The Gender Wage Gap in France and Europe Overall
In 2019, the European average wage gap saw improvement, dropping to 14.1% while France saw a rise in the gender wage gap, climbing to 16.5%, the 10th highest in the European Union.
Since 2004, trans people across the UK have had the right to legally change their gender through applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate.
Gender based violence (GBV) is a major public health, equality and human rights issue. It covers a spectrum of violence and abuse, committed primarily but not exclusively against women by men. This includes, but is not limited to. domestic abuse. rape and sexual assault.
Latest estimates3 show that Scotland's ethnicity pay gap was estimated to be 10.3% in 2019. This means that for every £1 that a white employee earned in 2019, a minority ethnic employee earned £0.90 on average.
Worldwide gender pay gap statistics
In 2020, the European Union had the highest gender pay gap in Latvia at 22.3% and the lowest in Luxembourg at 0.7%. Korea has the largest gender pay gap in the world at 31.5% and Belgium has one of the smallest gaps at 3.4%.
As of 2021, Belgium is the country with the most equal pay between the genders of OECD countries. The gender pay gap was at 1.17 percent. South Korea, on the other hand, is the country with the highest gender pay gap of the OECD countries with a 31 percent difference between the genders.
Across the EU, the pay gap differs widely, being the highest in the following countries in 2021: Estonia (20.5%), Austria (18.8%), Germany (17.6%), Hungary (17.3%) and Slovakia (16.6).
The national gender pay gap is calculated by WGEA using data from the ABS. As of May 2021, women's average weekly ordinary full- time earnings across all industries and occupations was $1,591.20 compared to men's average weekly ordinary full- time earnings of $1,846.50.
The analysis reveals a mean gender pay gap of 12.6% across Irish organisations which have published reports in December 2022. This compares to Ireland's latest available national gender pay gap of 11.3% (2019) and an EU average gender pay gap of 13% (for 2020), based on Eurostat data.
Despite having laws in place that prohibit gender-based wage discrimination, the gender pay gap in the Netherlands in 2022 is still 14,2% - meaning that on average women earn 14,2% less than men.
Over the years, Australia has made great progress towards gender equality, however, there is also evidence that in a number of areas progress is slowing or stalled. It is clear that gender inequality is not only holding women back, but is a brake on our progress as a country.
In 2022, the hourly average gender wage gap across Canada was 13%. Figure 7: Statistics Canada. Table 14-10-0417-01 Employee wages by occupation, annual (average hourly gender wage ratio, both full- and part-time employees, all occupations, 15 years and over, Canadian provinces).
The most gender equal nations are Iceland, Finland, Norway, New Zealand and Sweden. The least gender equal countries are Chad, Iran, Congo, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The rankings by the World Economic Forum are based on factors including health, education, economic security and political power.
Over the last decade, the unadjusted gender pay gap decreased in all five Nordic countries. In 2020, Sweden had the lowest pay gap between men and women at 10.5 percent. The pay gap was highest in Finland, above 16 percent. In Europe, Luxembourg had the lowest gender pay gap, whereas it was highest in Latvia.