Regulating womens pay in Finland and the UK - the role of the public sector

Hazel Conley and Paula Koskinen Sandberg

Chapter 16 in Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment, 2023, pp 206-219 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The public sector is the key site of women’s employment around the globe and, as such, is often the frontline in the battle for pay equality. This chapter examines the different routes by which Finland and the UK have sought to achieve equal pay and the role of the public sector in implementing it. We provide the context of equal pay, the gender pay gap and pay transparency in both countries before drawing on case studies in local government. Our analysis indicates that pay transparency operationalized in the gender pay gap regulations in both the UK and Finland is narrow and limited, relying on aggregated mean or median measures between men and women. Transparency is not sufficiently extended to include differences of pay between men and women doing different but equivalent work. We therefore argue that debate on pay transparency should be extended to include questions of equal value.

Keywords: Business and Management; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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