Closing New Brunswick's wage gap, an economic imperative : Combler l'écart salarial au Nouveau-Brunswick

Since there is no wage gap when the average wages of men are equal to the average wages of women, the very existence of a wage gap indicates there is economic inequality between the sexes. [...] The wage gap is the advanced to address one of overall problem we are investigating while pay equity is one part of the the three contributors to solution. [...] In fact, it rose to action in the late 1990s when the European wage gap data showed the UK to be at the bottom of the rankings. [...] The HDI rates each country for the longevity, knowledge and standard of living experienced by its citizens.vi (Earnings of men and of women are key elements of the standard of living component of this index.) According to the HDI data, every country in the world (for which the UN has data) has a gender-based wage gap. [...] They point out that these are the same factors that contribute to the wage gap.x In the «Closing NB’s Wage Gap – An Economic Imperative» Final Report of the New Brunswick Wage Gap Roundtable Page 29 of 101 productivity analysis, a zero wage gap means equal economic productivity between men and women.