The gender pay gap refers to the percentage gap between the male average wages and female average wages, I am looking for scholarly work from different countries on this subject as I am undertaking a research on Gender pay gap among agricultural laborers in Sri Lanka.
Look for Sabir and Aftab_2007 in Pakistan Development Review and Yasin etal_2010 in Asian Social Science.
Dear Pannilage
Trust you have looked at ILO's Global Wage Report, which looks at gender wage gap, motherhood wage gap and migrant wage gap
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_324678.pdf
For information on Agriculture Gender wage gap in India refer to
The Gender Gap in Agricultural Wages in India - Indian Statistical ...
www.isid.ac.in/~pu/conference/dec_11_conf/Papers/KanikaMahajan.pdf
In India, the gender wage gap has to be located within declining role of agriculture, mechanisation, in/out migration and the weak implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (when the scheme was better implemented under the earlier regime, agric wages of women and men were growing and gender gaps bridged a bit).
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Ranjani
There is still a huge gap between men and women on informal sector workers payment; not only that even the work descriptions are also gender bias.
Ranjani K. Murthy,
Many thanks for your detail information. They are very useful.
Pannilage Upali
As Ranjani K. Murthy suggested, look at ILO´s global report. But I´d like to add that in general terms, the gap salary between men an women is a characteristic of macroeconomics around the world. This gender gap deepens in the rural and informal sector because the rural domain is even more conservative/patryarcal than the urban ones. Even worst, this problem is not being addresed by social research in the same way that they do in the urban-informal sector. In the rural sector, women is not visible!
Not sure if gender gap as formal payment exists... However, I found in an study that agritourism farms in the US led by women have less income than their male counterpart. It was not the focus of the paper though, but one variable tested... this is the reference:
Barbieri, C. & Mshenga, P. (2008). The role of firm and owner characteristics on the performance of agritourism farms. Sociologia Ruralis, 48(2): 166-183
As far as agriculture is concerned in rural India, women labor force is increasing day by day but still wage discrimination prevails in agricultural sector.
Dear Prabakaran Ganesan,
Thanks for your answer. Do you know any study findings on the gender wage gap in any of the provinces of India.
Regards
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