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The OECD Countries With The Biggest Gender Pay Gaps, Ranked

The OECD Countries With The Biggest Gender Pay Gaps, Ranked
In the country with the largest gender pay gap overall, there's more than a 30 percent difference between men and women's earnings.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is made up of 38 countries that describe themselves as committed to democracy and economic development โ€” but that doesn't mean they're all making the same progress.

Using the latest OECD data available, Visual Capitalist ranked the ten member countries with the largest gender pay gaps in the organization.

South Korea has the biggest pay gap overall, with a 31.2 percent difference between men and women's full-time earnings, on average.

The second-highest gender page gap among OECD members is found in Israel, where the difference is 25.4 percent, followed by Latvia, where it stands at 24.9 percent.


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gender pay gap OECD countries



Via Visual Capitalist.

Comments

  1. Chris Bowman 3 weeks ago

    Did they actually use viable methodology? Or is it another one of those bullshit studies that compares an 18 year old woman working at the drive thru with a 58 year old male Dr and then acts surprised when they dont make the same money?

    1. Nonya Biznass 3 weeks ago

      Sorry you were triggered.


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