More women work in health and care but they earn 24 per cent less than men: UN report

The gender pay gap in the health and care sector: a global analysis in the time of

, was published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).  

It documents a raw gender pay gap of roughly 20 percentage points which jumps to 24 percentage points when factors such as age, education and working time are taken into account. 

Discrimination a factor 

While much of this gap is unexplained,…