Issues With Women’s Work Being Undervalued: Gender Pay Gap And Pay Equity In New Zealand

The Gender Pay GapThe gap in the gender pay is a high-level demonstration of the disparity between the earnings of men and women. It generally evaluates the median hourly earnings of men and women in the work of either full-time or part-time nature. In the year 2016, the gender gap was around 12 per cent. Since the year 1998 (16.3 per cent), the gender pay gap has reduced drastically, but has hindered in the last decade (Kelsey, 2015). In the ye…