Pay Equity/Wage Gap: Home

In the catalog, use the following subject headings:

Distribution of income

Equal pay for equal work

Income distribution

Income inequality

Inequality of income

Pay equity

Wage differentials

Wage gap

Wage inequality

Wage payment systems

World Development Report (The World Bank)

• 2012: Gender Equality and Development
• 2013: Jobs and accompanying Statistical Tables covering 1995-2010 include wage inequality data (Table 6. Social Cohesion)
• Gender at Work: A Companion to the World Development Report on Jobs

World Economic Forum:

• Agenda in Focus: Women and Work
• Gender Parity
• Global Agenda Council on Gender Parity - 'The Global Agenda Council on Gender Parity has been working to raise awareness and share best practices on gender issues.'
• The Global Gender Gap Report - World Economic Forum annual publication (2006+) that benchmarks national gender gaps of 100+ countries on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria.

• Gender Pay Differences: Progress Made, but Women Remain Overrepresented among Low-Wage Workers

2011 report from the U.S. Governmental Accountability Office

• Gender Pay Gap: Recent Trends and Explanations, April 2015 Council of Economic Advisers Issue Brief

• Gender Wage Gap

Annual fact sheet from the Institute for Women's Policy Research.

• The power of parity: How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth

September 2015 McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report focusing on "the economic implications of lack of parity between men and women." Visualize and download McKinsey Global Institute Power of Parity data on gender equality and economic growth in various regions and countries.

• Gender Data Portal, The World Bank

"The Gender Data Portal is the World Bank Group’s comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency."

• Gender Wage Gap, OECD StatExtracts

• ILOSTAT - Browse by subject to find gender-based employment and earnings data in yearly indicators, short-term indicators, and special collections

• Earnings Ratio (1960-2017), U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau

Women's earnings as a percent of men's/white men's, by race, full-time wage and salary workers, 1980-2012 annual averages

• Equal Pay Act Charges (FY1997+), U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Chart depicting the total number of charges filed and resolved under the Equal Pay Act (EPA). "The data are compiled by the Office of Research, Information, and Planning from data reported via the quarterly reconciled Data Summary Reports and compiled from EEOC's Charge Data System and, from FY 2004 forward, EEOC's Integrated Mission System."

• Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey: Earnings by Demographics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Current Population Survey earnings data by demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. Includes links to annual "Highlights of Women's Earnings" report.

• American Association of University Women: Equal Pay
• Institute for Women's Policy Research: Pay Equity and Discrimination
  • fact sheets, briefings, reports, and statistics

• International Labour Organization: Gender equality
  • In addition, the ILO has compiled a Research guide on gender equality in the world of work with sections organized by theme, geographic region, international labour standards, and statistics. See also the ILO report Equal Pay: An Introductory Guide.

• National Partnership for Women and Families: Fair Pay
  • fact sheets, wage gap map

• National Women's Law Center: Equal Pay and the Wage Gap