COVID-19 has shone a light on the critical importance of health and care workers, who were applauded and celebrated. It also laid bare the extent of inequalities workers in this highly feminized sector have been facing for decades. Notable among these inequalities is a Gender Pay Gap. It is for this reason that the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization co-developed the first ever global sectoral gender pay gap report.

This report is launched at the 2022 HLPF side-event with an aim to drive commitment to integrated policy action on improving gender equality, decent work and economic growth and good health and wellbeing. In particular, the report shows that whereas the health and care sector remain a major source of employment for women worldwide (they represent 67 per cent of workers in the sector), women nevertheless suffer a double jeopardy: average earnings in the sector are lower than other sectors, and a 24 per cent gender pay gap, which is, on average, higher than in non-health sectors. (AU)

Este informe da un paso importante en esta dirección al proporcionar el análisis más completo y profundo de la brecha salarial de género en el sector de la salud y la atención, un sector en el que predominan las mujeres. La evidencia muestra que, si bien siempre están presentes, las mujeres asalariadas reciben un salario aproximadamente un 20 % inferior al de los hombres y que solo una pequeña fracción de esta brecha se debe a diferencias en las características y dotaciones de mujeres y hombres. (AU)