Equal Pay campaigns

2019 - What women really want is Equal Pay

The Gender Pay Gap in the European Union is still 16%.

This means that, in order to earn what a men earns in one year, a women has to work a full year plus 58 days - until 27 February of the following year.

In order to raise awareness to this issue, on Equal Pay Day 2019 (27 February), PES Women launched a campaign video called "What women really want is Equal Pay". 

2018 - Equal Pay for Equal Pensions

Pensioner with grandchild

Women’s pensions are 39% lower than men’s in Europe. In order to prevent this pension gap from keeping happening, we need to act now and close the gender pay gap.

On the European level, we call for:

  • a common target to be established in order to reduce the gender pay gap by 2 percentage points per year and per Member State for all age groups
  • monitoring the reduction of the gender pay gap through audits at EU level
  • clear and dissuasive sanctions in the European legislation in case of non-fulfilment of the objectives

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2017 - Start sooner to get equal pay later

The PES Women campaign for Equal Pay was originally launched in 2013 and is the main feature of 2017. The campaign raises awareness about the 16.2% gender pay gap that exists at European level.

While in 2013 it focused on the pension gap between men and women, this year's theme is "Start sooner to get equal pay later", denouncing the fact that women would have to work ten years longer – or start working ten years earlier – to match the lifetime earnings of men.

This year's is a joint campaign with Zij-Kant and ABVV.

In order to shut the gender pay gap, PES Women calls for:

  • a common target to be established in order to reduce the Gender Pay Gap by 2% per year and per Member State for all age groups 
  • monitoring the reduction of the gender pay gap through audits at European level
  • clear and dissuasive sanctions in the European legislation in case of non-fulfilment of the objectives

 

Campaign material 2017

 

2013 - Equal pay for equal work

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Campaign material 2013

 

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