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.
Contents
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
1 EU and national approaches to gender pay transparency:
assessing effectiveness according to empirical evidence 33
Sara Benedí Lahuerta and Christine Aumayr-Pintar
2 Hard law, reflexive regulation and the role of the social partners 63
Colm McLaughlin and Simon Deakin
3 Gendered pay inequality: the unpaid care and paid work divide 81
Nicole Busby
PART II COMPARATIVE EXPERIENCES ON
KEY GENDER PAY TRANSPARENCY
REGULATORY CONUNDRUMS
4 With or without the social partners? Addressing the
gender pay gap in Sweden 103
Laura Carlson
5 The Gender Pay Gap Act in Belgium: cause or outcome of
the social dialogue on gender equality? 122
Sem Vandekerckhove
6 The gender pay gap in Austria: key sectors and strategies 146
Alix Frank-Thomasser
7 The Spanish legal framework for ensuring compliance
with gender pay gap transparency 167
María José Gómez-Millán Herencia
8 Information and transparency: central elements for gender
pay equity in Germany 189
Angela Kolb-Janssen
9 Pay transparency in Ireland: towards combining individual
rights and employers’ duties 209
Suzanne Carthy
10 The Professional Equality Index in France: an innovative
tool for greater transparency and advancement towards
pay equality? 231
Sylvia Cleff Le Divellec
11 Light and shadow under the Italian Equal Pay Act and the
need for transparency 254
Paola Degl’Innocenti
PART III UNDERVALUED ENFORCEMENT TOOLS?
12 Private certification systems for ‘fair pay’: the example of
the Universal Fair Pay Check® 275
Henrike von Platen
13 Resistance to equal pay auditing in the UK 294
Alex Patrick
14 Equality bodies and pay transparency in the EU: exploring
gaps and opportunities 317
Moana Genevey
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