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• Dr. Bettina Schleicher
• BPW Germany e.V. Past President 2004-2008, Chair Equal Pay Day Taskforce
The 28th BPW International Congress
Empowered Women Leading Business
26. May 2013, Jeju / Korea

Topics
• Facts from the international development of Gender Pay Gap -
If you deal with a problem you need basic knowledge
• BPW EPD Awareness Campaign – I will show you, how we as
BPW can manage this topic, start with an EPD campaign and
reach great attention
• Pictures /Examples of activities around the world
• Gift from the taskforce for BPW

The Gender Wage Gap exists worldwide
Example of OECD Countries
Pay gap between male and female income for full-time workers
(Source: OECD Employment Database 2013)

Worldwide Pay Gap
• The pay gap varies with the position of men
and women
• It is larger for higher-earners than for low-
earners
• The smaller gap for low-earners in many
countries reflects the influence of minimun
wages and collective agreements to protect
lower-income workers

Pay gap at the top and bottom of the earnings
distribution 2010 /Full time employees
Source: OECD Employment Database, June 2013

Development of pay gap (median earnings of full-
time employees), 1970 to 2011, for examble
Source: OECD Employment Database, June 2013

What are mean reasons for the Pay Gap?
• "women's work" is undervalued
• women more often work part time due to the
family work
• women interrupt their careers more
frequently
• gender role stereotypes still exists
• women don’t negotiate as well as men
• discrimination against women

Abstract of the Gender Pay Gap around the
world
• The pay gap is estimated globally to be 22,9%,
• Gender pay gap decreased in most of the OECD
countries (OECD average in 2010: 17,6%, 2011
17,3%)
• A positive trend can be notice in most of the
countries
• But unfortunately it would take us further 75 years
to close the gap (Source ILO Conference 2011)

We can‘t wait 75 years ! We started BPW Awareness
Campaign EPD – NYC, 2009, 53rd CSW
Work for the introduction of more EPDs worldwide and
for networking for worldwide activities

We want to achieve a rapid decraese of the
pay gap – fight for subject matter
• Raise awareness and mobilize
• Demands: transparent salaries systems in companies
• Have an equal number of women on board
• Inform women so they can act with more confidence
• Improve conditions for working mothers
• Promote discrimination-free job evaluation
• Increase the number of women in full-time jobs

What we have achieved – Establised a
worldwide movement
We started with 2 countries, meanwhile we
celebrate EPD in over 30 countries
BPW deal all over the world, on each continent
with this topic, even there isn‘t until now an EPD
• BPW gave the gender pay gape more relevance
• A lot of governments and parlamentariens put this
problem on a higher position of their agenda
• We reach also support from men, companies,
organisations, assosiations and trade unions

How to start and how to reach a large
number of people
1. Start with an EPD and repeat every year
2. Organize events and go public
3. Wear RED! – Red bags
are the BPW- Equal Pay Day symbol
4. Take as BPW a leading role, determine the date /EPD,
5. locate and find federats (unions, politician, companies),
Equal Pay is an important topic, which interests the
popultion, (there exists a competition about topics finds
attention, other oganisations must legitimate there
existence),
6.BPW don‘t fight against each other, work together!

Pictures from activities around the world

Equal Pay Day a worldwide movement
Australia
Canada
Finnland

EPD 2014 - Germany

Poland EPD

BPW France Paris

EPD Korea

Japan EPD

EPD Australia

EPD Italy

EPD Austria

EPD Croatia

EPD Bulgaria

Singapore EDP event

Get organized !

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Organize Events
Riding the red „London bus“
in Göttingen
USA, Long Island An Equal Pay Day
breakfast

Meet at Public Places !

Organize demonstrations and invite press!

Raise awareness

Involve Members of Parlament and
Politicians
„pay equity is everyone’s issue“
•Members of Parlament,
New Zealand
•Male politicians for
EPD, Australia
•Minister of Foreign
Affairs,
Germany

Involve politician / important person
Viviane Reding, EU Justice Commissioner• Horst Köhler, former President
Germany

Take Attention, Organize Petitions
Hand over results to government officials
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Meet at public places

Organize public events, like a soccer match, a
rallye, a bike race or have games

Have fun - „Unhappy Hour“
Powerpoint Karaoke in Baden,
Switzerland on EPD 2013

Sew your own Red Bags !!

Show your Red Bags

Dekorat shop windows in Switzerland

Let Balloons fly!

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Glasgow, UK
Red has become the color for the movement because
when it comes to salaries, women’s finances are „in the
red.“
… more red baloons

Print your own Newspaper:
Or get into your
local newspaper:

Create your national Equal Pay Day website like:
• Switzerland: www.equalpayday.ch
• Germany: www.equalpayday.de
• Austria: www.equalpayday.at
• Austrialia: www.equalpayday.com.au
• Belgium: www.equalpayday.be
• Czech Republic: www.equalpayday.cz
• EPD Taskforce: www.eqaul-pay-day.com
Or put your pictures and reports at your national
or at our international BPW website or put them
direct on internet

Produce and show EPD-Videos
Initiative EPD in Australia 2013
Initative gender pay gap EU Comission

Bake, cook and play music !
Or simply have a
video night with
the plenty equal
pay day related
videos online !

Create small presents /advertising specialities

Offer from the taskforce to you
• We create with you your own flyer
• You translate the text into your language
• We can made a foto here or you send me some
• Send me name and emailadress of the responcible person
• We will email you your flyer

Thank you for your attention
Help continue the fight for equal pay!

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