According to the United Nations, equal pay is essential for human rights and gender equality. Although the progress of international organizations in bridging this gap has been slow, success has been achieved in the direction of reducing this inequality of pay on the basis of gender, on a small scale. Equal pay for men and womenĮqual pay for men and women has been widely advocated, but when it comes to its implementation in practice, the ground reality looks quite different. That’s why women have to make it clear that #equalpayforequalwork means equal pay for equal work. But the roots of this orthodox idea, which have existed for centuries, are present in today’s modern era as well. Due to this mentality, the concept of paying less wages to women for the same work came into vogue. It is said that physically women are weaker than men.
■ Also Read: Engineers Day 2021: Know About The Principal Engineer Who Has Engineered This Entire Universe? | SA News Channelįrom the very beginning, men and women are treated as separate on the basis of gender. The #stoptherobbery campaign was launched by the United Nations Women’s Organization to spread awareness about gender-based unequal pay. As a result, this disparity between men and women deepens and more women are retiring in poverty. At this pace, the United Nations says it could take women about 257 years to fill this gap in gender-based pay disparity. In dollars, women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. More on this from SheEO Venture 👇 #GenderPayGap #EqualPayDay - SheEO™ September 13, 2021Īccording to United Nations statistics, women in the world are still paid 23 percent less than men. That’s now the gender pay gap between men and women in Australia." In every region of the world, it is considered a common practice for women to be paid less for equal work. This includes discrimination especially against women and girls. The non-payment of equal pay for equal work is against the UN’s commitment to human rights and against all forms of discrimination. The day represents the long-standing efforts towards equal pay for work of equal value without gender discrimination globally. International Equal Pay Day is being celebrated for the second time this year on 18th September. International Equal Pay Day is celebrated for the second time In 2020 International Equal Pay Day Theme is “Building back a better future of work by ensuring pay equity”. Apart from recognizing the contribution of workers and employers’ organizations and businesses, the resolution also recognized the work and contribution of EPIC towards achieving equal pay. The resolution was co-sponsored by a total of 105 member states. The United Nations General Assembly at its 74th session on 15 November 2019 adopted the resolution (A/C37/74/L.49) by the Third Committee declaring 18 September as the International Day of Equals.
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