pay gap

English

WOTD – 10 February 2020

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ ɡæp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

pay gap (plural pay gaps)

1. The difference in salaries between one group and another.

   Synonym: wage gap

   gender pay gap

   race pay gap

   sexual orientation pay gap

   • 1988, Heidi Hartmann, “Achieving Economic Equity for Women”, in Marcus Raskin, Chester Hartman, editors, Winning America: Ideas and Leadership for the 1990s, Boston, Mass.: South End Press and the Institute for Policy Studies, →ISBN, page 96:

     The growth of the service sector has provided jobs for women; women have increased their participation in the labor market; the pay gap between women and men has been reduced somewhat; women have entered a wider range of jobs; and women's share of higher-paying jobs has increased.

   • 1993, Irwin L. Collier, Jr., “German Economic Integration: The Case for Optimism”, in Michael G. Huelshoff, Andrei S. Markovits, Simon Reich, editors, From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland: German Politics after Reunification, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 93:

     Uncertain or lost jobs, quadrupled rents, and the pay gap between Wessi and Ossi loom far larger in the average easterner's consciousness than the new family car.

   • 1997, Deborah L. Rhode, “Women’s Work”, in Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Equality, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 141:

     Female lawyers are less than half as likely as similarly qualified male colleagues to become partners, and pay gaps range from 10 to 35 percent between men and women in comparable positions. The disparities are even greater for women of color.

   • 1997, Helen Wilkinson, with Stephen Radley, Ian Christie, George Lawson, Jamie Sainsbury, “Why Parental Leave is on the Agenda”, in Time Out: The Costs and Benefits of Paid Parental Leave (Demos Paper Series; issue 29), London: Demos, →ISBN, page 46:

     Although there has been a significant closing of the gender pay gap especially among educated young women, the family gap – the gap that opens up when women have children – remains stubbornly resistant.

   • 2005, William Bridges, “Racial Equality without Equal Employment Opportunity? Lessons from a Labor Market for Professional Athletes”, in Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson, editors, Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 149:

     The widespread persistence of gender and racial pay gaps is frequently cited as evidence against the proposition that discrimination in competitive markets will be self-extinguishing [...].

   • 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 September 2019:

     While companies are bravely talking about their efforts to redress the gender pay gap (large employers will be compelled to report details of how they pay their male and female staff in April), we know that women are, on average, much worse paid than men throughout the City. Broadly, power remains in men's hands.

   • 2018 October 11, Peter Walker, Jessica Elgot, “New law could force employers to reveal race pay gap figures”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 November 2019:

     The race pay gap reporting is intended to mirror elements of the gender pay gap regulations, proposing the same threshold of 250 employees or above for mandatory reporting.

   • 2019 January 7, John Schneider, David Auten, “This may be Keeping You up at Night”, in Forbes‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:

     With the sexual orientation pay gap that our community has to deal with, not only do we have more debt to pay off, we struggle harder to do so.

Translations

difference in salaries between one group and another

• Finnish: palkkakuilu
• French: écart salarial m, écart de rémunération m
• Georgian: სხვაობა ხელფასში (sxvaoba xelpasši), სახელფასო სხვაობა (saxelpaso sxvaoba)
• German: Lohngefälle n
• Spanish: brecha salarial f
• Swedish: lönegap (sv) n

See also

• gender gap

Further reading

• gender pay gap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia