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Bridging the Gender Pay Gap through Transparency: Comparative Approaches and Key Regulatory Conundrums

Bridging the Gender Pay Gap through Transparency: Comparative Approaches and Key Regulatory Conundrums

Author: Sara Benedí Lahuerta; Katharina Miller; Laura Carlson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781803920412
Published In: December 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This timely book evaluates the advantages and challenges of adopting pay transparency legislation (PTL) to address the ongoing issues of the gender pay gap. Chapters contextually examine whether PTL can help reduce the gender pay gap and discuss which factors should be considered to potentially boost the effects of this legal intervention.

The editors have brought together expert contributors to explore detailed case studies demonstrating how PTL is implemented across the globe. The 2023 EU Pay Transparency Directive is rigorously analyzed in addition to the role of Equality Bodies and private certification systems. The book provides an in-depth yet accessible critique of both the potential and limitations of PTL and considers key themes including the role of self-regulation, collective bargaining and the need to depart from traditional work and care patterns to address pay inequity.

Bridging the Gender Pay Gap Through Transparency is an excellent resource for legal scholars and practitioners specialising in gender equality and labour rights. Students and researchers of gender studies, governance and regulation as well as policymakers and HR professionals will find the comprehensive analysis beneficial.

Foreword 1 xv

Foreword 2 xvii

Introduction: pay inequity – old problems, new solutions? 1

Sara Benedí Lahuerta, Katharina Miller and Laura Carlson

PART I. THE WIDER POLICY AND REGULATORY CONTEXT

EU and national approaches to gender pay transparency: assessing effectiveness according to empirical evidence 33

Sara Benedí Lahuerta and Christine Aumayr-Pintar

Hard law, reflexive regulation and the role of the social partners 63

Colm McLaughlin and Simon Deakin

Gendered pay inequality: the unpaid care and paid work divide 81

Nicole Busby

PART II. COMPARATIVE EXPERIENCES ON KEY GENDER PAY TRANSPARENCY REGULATORY CONUNDRUMS

With or without the social partners? Addressing the gender pay gap in Sweden 103

Laura Carlson

The Gender Pay Gap Act in Belgium: cause or outcome of the social dialogue on gender equality? 122

Sem Vandekerckhove

The gender pay gap in Austria: key sectors and strategies 146

Alix Frank-Thomasser

The Spanish legal framework for ensuring compliance with gender pay gap transparency 167

María José Gómez-Millán Herencia

Information and transparency: central elements for gender pay equity in Germany 189

Angela Kolb-Janssen

Pay transparency in Ireland: towards combining individual rights and employers’ duties 209

Suzanne Carthy

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The Professional Equality Index in France: an innovative tool for greater transparency and advancement towards pay equality? 231

Sylvia Cleff Le Divellec

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Light and shadow under the Italian Equal Pay Act and the need for transparency 254

Paola Degl’Innocenti

PART III. UNDERVALUED ENFORCEMENT TOOLS?

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Private certification systems for ‘fair pay’: the example of the Universal Fair Pay Check® 275

Henrike von Platen

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Resistance to equal pay auditing in the UK 294

Alex Patrick

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Equality bodies and pay transparency in the EU: exploring gaps and opportunities 317

Moana Genevey

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