Contributor(s): Nina Rousille, Camille Landais, Jane Garvey | This episode of LSE iQ explores whether gender pay gap reporting, pay transparency and tackling gender norms can reduce the gender pay gap.

On average across the globe, for every pound earned by a man, a woman earns around 80 pence, according to a 2023 report from the United Nations.

But despite huge advances in access to education, the labour market, and the introduction of the UK Equality Act of 2010, which guarantees equal pay for men and women doing equal work, those figures have pretty much remained the same for the past two decades. Still, the gender pay gap - the difference between the average earnings of men and women - endures. So, how can we solve it?

Anna Bevan talks to broadcaster Jane Garvey about the impact of gender pay gap reporting and what happened to her after the BBC was forced to publish its gender pay gap report.

She also speaks to Nina Rousille, the Executive Director of LSE’s Hub for Equal Representation and Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT, about the role of the Ask Gap and pay transparency, and Camille Landais, Professor of Economics at LSE about the Child Penalty.

Research

The Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality by Nina Rousille

The Child Penalty by Camille Landais, Henrik Kleven and Gabriel Leite-Mariante, also displayed here

Who has the power to address the child penalty globally? LSE Festival online exhibition

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