WHAT PARITY MEANS TO ME: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2016
Globally, women earn on average 24% less than men. If you think about this discrepancy in terms of one working year, it essentially means that the world’s population of women are working October, November and December for free.
This is why parity is important.
When we look at our own lives, or even the lives of women we know, it can be hard to appreciate how the gender pay gap affects our lives. In general, we’re not in the habit of sitting around and discussing how much we earn – most of us won’t even know how much our close friends are taking home each month, let alone be thinking about how we compare to others thousands of miles away.