Prof Grace Wamue-Ngare, the Director Centre for Gender Equity and Empowerment at Kenyatta University defines gender pay gap in terms of how many women, compared to men, occupy certain strata in the corporate job scale. “It is gender pay gap to me if there are four men at the executive level whose salaries can collectively pay for the salaries of all the hundred women at the lower level,” she says. While she has not personally experienced gender pay gap, experiences of some members within her network are different, insights that have centred the focus of her work on equipping women to beat the gender pay gap. The BrighterMonday survey confirms that senior roles have more men than women; negatively affecting the pay gap. How we navigated the gapStill at the current rates, it may take another 257 years to close the gender pay gap globally according to the World Economic Forum.

Source: Daily Nation August 10, 2020 08:38 UTC