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Towards a Closing of the Gender Pay Gap
ISBN print: 82-7937-019-6
Pages: 110
"Towards a Closing of the Gender Pay Gap" is a project, which comes under the 5th Action Programme´s Community Framework Strategy on Gender Equality (2001-2005) and deals with gender wage differences. It is funded by the European Commission and by national authorities. There are six partner countries in the project: Austria, Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom. A Steering Committee with members from all the partner countries functions as the governing body for the project. The Norwegian Centre for Gender Equality manages the project. The objective of the project is to promote equal pay between men and women for equal work and work of equal value and to identify an efficient mix of tools and instruments for promoting equal pay in the context of each partner country in three target occupations: unskilled workers in the food processing industry, engineers and secondary education teachers. The project partners have produced a national report on these occupations.