Iceland has become the world’s most gender equal country for the past few decades it was the first to directly elect a female President and first to enforce equal pay for equal work. Women in India are paid most unequally when it comes to hourly wages. The ILO report states that women are paid 34% less than men in India. Globally on an average hourly wages of women is 16% less than those of men. Krishna Kumar CEO of Green Pepper Consulting says that market economies would look only on return of investment of skilled workers and equality won’t happen by itself.
Iceland has a population of just 3. 4 lakh. Even in Indian cinema women have been fighting for a new system to decide the payment as most of the female actors are not crowd pullers and the market doesn’t rate them equal to male actors. Hope India takes a leaf out of Iceland’s book.
