남여 평등지수 세계 1위 국가 아이슬란드 Iceland Makes It Illegal to Pay Men Higher Salaries Than Women

 

Iceland Makes It Illegal to Pay Men Higher Salaries Than Women

By Jessica Stewart on January 4, 2018

Photo: Tim Wright

아이슬란드에서는 남자가 여자보다 월급을 더 많이 

받는 것은 불법으로 되어있다.

남여평등지수도 세계 1위

(10대 갭지수 순위 아래 도표 참조)

고액연봉 국가들 중 세계에서 남여 급여의 갭이 가장 큰 나라는

카타르. 그리고 쿠웨이트 역시 중동국가답다.

룩셈부르크와 싱가포르도 만만치 않다.

10년 간 남여간의 급여 갭은 점차 증가하고 있으며 2017년에는 

최고치를 기록하고 있다.

급여는 모두 증가하지만 갭은 더 벌어지고 있는 것이다.

남여평등지수가 높은 국가들은 남여급여 갭차이도 역시 크지 않다.

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Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator

Proving why it's the top country in the world when it comes to gender equality, Iceland's new law guaranteeing wage parity for women went into effect on January 1, 2018. This means it will now be illegal to pay men and women different wages for the same job. As this issue has become increasingly public over the past few years, thanks to highly publicized cases in Hollywood and other industries, Iceland is leading the charge in not leaving equal pay a choice in the minds of employers.

Ranked at the top of the WEF’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Index for the ninth year in a row (the United States came in 49th place), the legislation is just further evidence of the steps Iceland is taking toward gender equality. While Dagny Osk Aradottir Pind, a board member of the Icelandic Women's Rights Association, told Al Jazeera that the country has had legislation stating that men and women should receive equal wages for decades, the new law takes things further by holding companies accountable. Now, businesses with more than 25 employees will need to pass government certification proving that they are paying both sexes equally for the same job. Failure to comply will result in heavy fines.

“The legislation is basically a mechanism that companies and organizations…evaluate every job that's being done, and then they get a certification after they confirm the process if they are paying men and women equally,” she shared.

Top 10 Countries with Best Gender Equality

via World Economic Forum

The law is just another step that will continue to help the country close the gender gap. Already, since 2006, they've managed to close the gap by 10% and the new legislation is a continuation of the policy, using a firmer hand to make sure that everyone is treated equally.

In a country where almost 50% of parliament is female, there was the realization that more could be done to eradicate the wage gap, with the Nordic country having the goal to see it completely vanish by 2020. So what is it that makes Iceland so special? According to Magnea Marinósdóttir and Rósa Erlingsdóttir of the Equality Unit in the Icelandic Ministry of Welfare, it's nothing that other countries can't replicate.

“Gender equality does not come about of its own accord. It requires the collective action and solidarity of women human rights defenders, political will, and tools such as legislation, gender budgeting, and quotas. Iceland, despite being an island, is not isolated from progress towards gender equality. As is the case worldwide, our incremental progress can firstly be attributed to the solidarity of women human rights defenders challenging and protesting the monopoly of power in the hands of men and the power of men over women.”

via World Economic Forum

h/t: [Inhabitat]

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