How the public sector is fighting income inequality (and why it’s still not enough

This reduction in the gender pay gap is offset by men’s wages in the How the public sector is fighting income inequality 4 public sector—they make slightly less in the public sector compared to the private sector. [...] How the public sector is fighting income inequality 16 The public sector and the gender pay gap looking aT These two possible types of discrimination in Table 1 (gender and immigration status), it’s worth asking if the public sector attempts to close the pay gap compared to the private sector. [...] How the public sector is fighting income inequality 18 The motherhood penalty and the fatherhood premium one of The factors in the gender wage gap is the presence of children. [...] The occupation in the public sector that has the largest constraint in pay is legislative and senior management, where workers are paid 29 per cent less in the public sector.3 In raw terms, senior management has the highest hourly wages of any occupation, but the public sector manages to significantly constrain these rates. [...] Men in the public sector are paid five percentage points less than men in the private sector with women in the public sector being paid 2.2 per cent less than comparable women in the private sector.