Bridging the Gender Pay Gap through Transparency

Edited by Sara Benedí Lahuerta, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, Katharina Miller, Former President of the European Women Lawyers Association and Former Head of the EU delegation of the G20/W20 and Laura Carlson, School of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden

• ContentsForeword 1 xvForeword 2 xviiIntroduction: pay inequity – old problems, new solutions? 1Sara Benedí Lahuerta, Katharina Miller and Laura CarlsonPART I THE WIDER POLICY AND REGULATORY CONTEXT1 EU and national approaches to gender pay transparency:assessing effectiveness according to empirical evidence 33Sara Benedí Lahuerta and Christine Aumayr-Pintar2 Hard law, reflexive regulation and the role of the social partners 63Colm McLaughlin and Simon Deakin3 Gendered pay inequality: the unpaid care and paid work divide 81Nicole BusbyPART II COMPARATIVE EXPERIENCES ONKEY GENDER PAY TRANSPARENCYREGULATORY CONUNDRUMS4 With or without the social partners? Addressing thegender pay gap in Sweden 103Laura Carlson5 The Gender Pay Gap Act in Belgium: cause or outcome ofthe social dialogue on gender equality? 122Sem Vandekerckhove6 The gender pay gap in Austria: key sectors and strategies 146Alix Frank-Thomasser7 The Spanish legal framework for ensuring compliancewith gender pay gap transparency 167María José Gómez-Millán Herencia8 Information and transparency: central elements for genderpay equity in Germany 189Angela Kolb-Janssen9 Pay transparency in Ireland: towards combining individualrights and employers’ duties 209Suzanne Carthy10 The Professional Equality Index in France: an innovativetool for greater transparency and advancement towardspay equality? 231Sylvia Cleff Le Divellec11 Light and shadow under the Italian Equal Pay Act and theneed for transparency 254Paola Degl’InnocentiPART III UNDERVALUED ENFORCEMENT TOOLS?12 Private certification systems for ‘fair pay’: the example ofthe Universal Fair Pay Check® 275Henrike von Platen13 Resistance to equal pay auditing in the UK 294Alex Patrick14 Equality bodies and pay transparency in the EU: exploringgaps and opportunities 317Moana Genevey

‘Bridging the Gender Pay Gap through Transparency is essential reading for anyone interested in achieving pay equity. It provides key insights from leading thinkers on the global gender pay gap and research from more than a dozen countries on what’s working, and what’s not. An important and timely collection.’