As of today, New Zealand women are effectively working for free until the end of the year because of the 8.2% gender pay gap.
Based on that gap, the average Kiwi woman is paid 336 days for the equivalent of 366 days for men, according to the Ministry for Women.
At this point its just stupid to call it a “pay” gap. There hasnt been a statistically relevant pay gap in western countries with gender equality laws for a long time. What does exist is discrimination and a hiring/promotion gap. Proponents of the term “pay gap” are just shooting themselves in the foot by refusing to actually name the thing that they are fighting for.
The issue is deeper too. As mentioned in another comment, [women are often found in jobs that have low pay to start with (https://www.women.govt.nz/women-and-work/occupational-segregation), regardless of sex. One has to find out why that happens as well as why those jobs are paid so badly. “Because women” is not an explanation as the “solution” could either be “fire all women” or “hire more men”, but that’s barely an attempt at analysing nor solving the issue.
lol, miss me with this bullshit