Promoting Gender Equality in the Health Workforce: An Advocacy Tool

 

Consider what types of interventions could be advocated for to reduce wage discrimination and ensure equal pay for equal work in your context. Could the gender-transformative intervention:

  • Provide information and education about equal rights and pay
  • Attempt to change imbalance of power or otherwise level the playing field in the health workforce
  • Introduce, make use of, or further the existing legal protections against wage discrimination and equal pay?

Suggested interventions

  • Review laws, policies, and practices that result in wage discrimination (such as “breadwinner” clauses that take into account male employees’ assumed need to provide for their households).
  • Assess differences in remuneration in forms other than salary (e.g., overtime pay, bonuses, fringe benefits, housing, professional development).
  • Conduct job evaluations that permit equal remuneration for work of equal value, the principle that women and men should receive equal pay for jobs calling for comparable skill and responsibility.

 

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Promoting Gender Equality in the Health Workforce: An Advocacy Tool