Short answer - yes, on average, there are significant differences between men's and women's wages.

The journal Sex Roles had an issue this year with several good psychological perspectives on the pay gap between men and women -> http://link.springer.com/journal/11199/68/3/page/1

For cross-national data, the human development report gives an overview of the median-pay gap between men and women across the world ->

http://hdr.undp.org/en/mediacentre/humandevelopmentreportpresskits/2013report/

If you would like to find more information, the term 'Gender Wage Gap' prompts books and research from several research fields(e.g., economics, sociology, industrial-organisational).

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I recommend a lecture of Stanford Professor of Sociology Shelley Correll, who explains how sexist stereotypes produce disadvantaging effects at the workplace.

http://leanin.org/education/creating-a-level-playing-field/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer0e954&utm_medium=facebook

Another thing is Gender Equality Index (domain - work): http://eige.europa.eu/content/gender-equality-index#/domain/work

There are a lot of articles, reports concerning this topic.

I'm taking a chance here by recommending a few of my 'old school' favorites Gender, Class & Work (ed) Garmarnikov, E. et al, Women and the Workplace (ed.) Blaxall, M., Sex Discrimination and the Division of Labor (ed.) Lloyd, C.

See also almost anything written by Jill Rubrey and Rosemary Crompton. These are only a few but they will privide a good fundation to build on.

Good Luck!

hi Rachel, not sure if you still need materials. As has been answered yes there is. There are a number of indices and data available mostly for OECD countries on this.  the GEI has been mentioned. There is also the Womens Economic Opportunity Index which the Economist produces and the Global Gender Gap Report produced by the World Economic Forum. On agriculture and rural women, the FAO and IFAD usually have good data.

See the links to take you to the two reports i mentioned:

http://www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=weoindex2012

http://www.weforum.org/issues/global-gender-gap

Quite a bit of data on this now also in the US. Also check OECD Statistics.  Unfortunately labour stats in a lot of developing countries may not be fully uptodate on this issue.

The top 3 factors that boost gender equality in the workplace

Bold leadership, comprehensive action, and an empowering environment are three categories of factors that can help close gender gaps in the enterprise...

• Bold leadership: A diverse leadership team that sets, shares, and measures equality targets openly.
• Comprehensive action: Policies and practices that are family-friendly, support both genders, and are bias-free in attracting and retaining people.
• Empowering environment: One that trusts employees, respects individuals, and offers freedom to be creative and to train and work flexibly...

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-top-3-factors-that-boost-gender-equality-in-the-workplace/?ftag=TRE684d531&bhid=26515897512689358169344413145444

Certainly not in the public sector. I suspect there could be wage inequality in the private sector

Women and the war for talent

“Science is a great leveller and from a gender perspective we have some very smart women in STEM ...

Making gender diversity happen has plenty of advocates on both sides of the do it on merit or do it by quota schools of thought...

http://www.innovationaus.com/2018/03/Women-and-the-war-for-talent

Gender inequalities we do face first at schools, later at workplace...

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With outreach firmly on the agenda for the modern university, one way institutions can aspire to shape and transform local communities is by embedding service to society within the educational experience. As well as enriching students’ time at university, this can have both short- and long-term benefits to wider society....

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-embed-service-society-within-educational-experience?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial-daily&spMailingID=24750492&spUserID=MTAxNzcwNzE4MTk2NAS2&spJobID=2191895889&spReportId=MjE5MTg5NTg4OQS2

Economic historian Claudia Goldin has won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for dismantling simple ideas about how gender inequalities in labour markets have changed over time. Women have been under-represented in the workplace for at least the past two centuries and continue to earn, on average, 13% less than men — an injustice as well as a puzzling ‘market inefficiency’. Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity or to employment of more women. “Goldin has been saying for many years that the way work is organized in many professions is especially female-unfriendly,” says economist Barbara Petrongolo...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03190-4