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

Contents
Foreword 1 xv
Foreword 2 xvii
Introduction: pay inequity – old problems, new solutions? 1
Sara Benedí Lahuerta, Katharina Miller and Laura Carlson
PART I THE WIDER POLICY AND REGULATORY CONTEXT
1 EU and national approaches to gender pay transparency:
assessing effectiveness according to empirical evidence 33
Sara Benedí Lahuerta and Christine Aumayr-Pintar
2 Hard law, reflexive regulation and the role of the social partners 63
Colm McLaughlin and Simon Deakin
3 Gendered pay inequality: the unpaid care and paid work divide 81
Nicole Busby
PART II COMPARATIVE EXPERIENCES ON
KEY GENDER PAY TRANSPARENCY
REGULATORY CONUNDRUMS
4 With or without the social partners? Addressing the
gender pay gap in Sweden 103
Laura Carlson
5 The Gender Pay Gap Act in Belgium: cause or outcome of
the social dialogue on gender equality? 122
Sem Vandekerckhove
6 The gender pay gap in Austria: key sectors and strategies 146
Alix Frank-Thomasser
7 The Spanish legal framework for ensuring compliance
with gender pay gap transparency 167
María José Gómez-Millán Herencia
8 Information and transparency: central elements for gender
pay equity in Germany 189
Angela Kolb-Janssen
9 Pay transparency in Ireland: towards combining individual
rights and employers’ duties 209
Suzanne Carthy
10 The Professional Equality Index in France: an innovative
tool for greater transparency and advancement towards
pay equality? 231
Sylvia Cleff Le Divellec
11 Light and shadow under the Italian Equal Pay Act and the
need for transparency 254
Paola Degl’Innocenti
PART III UNDERVALUED ENFORCEMENT TOOLS?
12 Private certification systems for ‘fair pay’: the example of
the Universal Fair Pay Check® 275
Henrike von Platen
13 Resistance to equal pay auditing in the UK 294
Alex Patrick
14 Equality bodies and pay transparency in the EU: exploring
gaps and opportunities 317
Moana Genevey