Gender pay gap

So that's just a small example of how this change can happen.

Let's look at another area that's a sort of particularly pernicious problem, and that's the gender pay gap.

And this shows the sort of results of your findings.

I guess just as a background, we now have legislation that makes it illegal for men and women to be paid differently for doing the same work.

So I guess in theory, some people might think, well... particularly in the public sector, you'd hope, that pay gap should be zero.

Can you talk about, as a background to this slide, about how and why gender pay gaps still exist and what it now actually measures? Because an average pay gap of nearly 16% across the public sector seems like a very high figure indeed.

Yeah, yeah.

It's a complex kind of puzzle, but just as a sort of dot point for you, it measures the differences in earnings between gender groups, men, women, gender diverse people, although we don't have a lot of data on gender diverse people and we don't report that if there's not enough data because it's not reliable.

Even now, things aren't equal.

Ready for some depressing stats? The national gender pay gap in 2026 is 11.5%.

That means on average, women are only making 88% of what men are making across the board.

I think that it's really unfair that they should get paid more for the same job even if a woman is doing it better.

There's a number of interpretations of what we mean by what's available legally.

So coming subject to secondary legislation in April 2027, any employers with over 250 staff will be bound by the Gender Pay Gap Reporting, which will require them to have an action plan to cover menopause support for workers.

And so that will be a formal starting point, if you like, of the fact that larger employers have to take action to be able to demonstrate they're supporting people at this time of life.

So that could be line management training, general awareness sessions, menopause social, time off for appointments.

The Big Island rose a tenth to 3.5. Molokai'i fell a tenth to 3.5. Lanai'i rose eight-tenths to 4.2 percent.

Women in Hawaii make a median income over $39,000 a year, but that's $11,000 less than the median for men.

Bad as that is, it's 12th smallest of the 50 state gender pay gaps.

All 50 states have gender pay gaps measured in the thousands of dollars.

521, now Guy Angelani at the first alert desk.

We did have some showers along the leeward coast this morning.

How should we think about this number and its evolution from the 1980s till now?

Yeah, so the so-called gender pay gap is a focal piece of information that can sometimes be a nice summary measure for the position of women in the labor market.

I wouldn't say it can be distilled into a single number, although the 59 cent pin, I'm sure, was flashy.

Well, you know, a longer explanation wouldn't fit on a pin, I imagine, or not enough font anybody could read.

Meanwhile, you can have a man and women working in the same job, but earning different amounts of money because of productivity differences.

So the 90 cent number on the one hand might overstate the role of discrimination if there are productivity differences that stem from some other societal difference, or it might understate the role of discrimination if there's some gender segregation in the types of jobs men and women can do.

So the gender pay gap is certainly a focal number, but it doesn't tell us the whole story.

So to talk a little bit more about the whole story, as you noted, there have been these huge changes in women's role in the labor force over the last half century.

Women fall through the cracks at work, especially on boards, report says.

There's even a pay gap between male and female AI agents.

If you take your foot off the pedal at all, you will start to stall.

Women in C-suite roles have stagnated.

Today, we're diving into some really important stories that shape our lives.

We'll be looking at the persistent wage gap affecting Latino women and what that means for our families.

We're also tracking a concerning trend in our schools with high rates of chronic absenteeism among Hispanic students.

Plus, we have a difficult story about Latino immigrants facing unexpected legal limbo after deportation, and we'll touch on a recent execution in Florida.

Stay with us as we break down what matters to our community.

First up, let's talk about something that directly impacts the financial wellbeing of so many of us, the wage gap, specifically for Latina women.

A new report from the National Partnership for Women & Families highlights that Latinas are still earning significantly less than White, non-Hispanic men, and even less than White women.

For every dollar a White, non-Hispanic man earns, Latinas are often making around 59 cents.

I remember there, there was a...

Fresh Books used to measure this too, and they found that the gender pay gap, um, persisted even when you were self-employed, which is really sad.

And, you know, listen, I get it that, you know, we, we sometimes have to protect ourselves, right?

Yeah.

Cooperation also extends to medical research and education with 178 Icelandic students currently studying at Comenius University's Medical Faculty in Martin, and around 200 Icelandic doctors having already graduated from the institution.

[upbeat music] Women in Slovakia earned an average of 15.6% less than men, with the gender pay gap growing significantly after having children, according to a survey presented at the Equal Pay Day conference.

The survey found that childless women earned an average of €1,212 net per month, comparable to men.

However, their income dropped to €1,056 after having one child.