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Source: United Nations – United Nations –
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September 15, 2025 Women
Women around the world still earn on average 20 percent less than men. Gender equality is not fully achieved due to persistent historical and structural barriers that limit opportunities for women and girls, UN Women said ahead of International Equal Pay Day on 18 September.
Inequality persists
According to the UN, women are more likely than men to be unemployed. Only 28 percent of employed women worldwide have access to paid maternity leave. At the same time, women still do an average of three hours more unpaid work per day in housework and childcare and elder care than men.
The UN also notes that the gender pay gap is greater among national and racial minorities. In the US, black women earn 63.7 cents of every dollar earned by white men, indigenous women earn 59 cents, and Latinas earn 57 cents.
Women, especially migrant women, are much more likely to work in the informal sector, where wages are lower and working conditions are much worse. Motherhood exacerbates inequality: working mothers earn less than women without children.
Internationally enshrined law
UN Women recalls that equal pay for work of equal value is a fundamental right enshrined in the in one of the international conventions, which has already been ratified by 91 countries, and is a guarantee of socio-economic development.
The organization calls for coordinated action to reduce the gender wage gap.
“We continue to advance this agenda in partnership with governments, employers, workers’ organizations, international institutions and research organizations,” the statement said.
Governments, UN Women stresses, must create legal and policy frameworks to ensure equal pay. Employers must implement transparent pay practices and create gender-sensitive workplaces, and workers’ organizations must promote social dialogue and collective bargaining.
“With evidence and technical support from international institutions and research organizations, as well as the active participation of the private sector, civil society and academia, we can close the gender pay gap and ensure women’s full economic empowerment,” the statement said.
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