{"id":7884,"date":"2018-05-27T00:53:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T22:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmkedev.wpengine.com\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2022-01-12T18:43:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:43:53","slug":"gender-pay-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/gender-pay-gap","title":{"rendered":"The Gender Pay Gap in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever get the opportunity to take a quick glimpse at your company\u2019s payroll, you might be surprised to discover that there are male employees that earn higher than female counterparts in the same departments, undertaking similar roles and probably with the same educational background.<\/p>\n

This is not an uncommon phenomenon in the Kenyan job landscape. A recent <\/span>report<\/span><\/a> on the best 100 companies to work for by BrighterMonday revealed that there were 10% more men in high salary brackets than women. While one might argue that there are more male employees in senior levels than women, another study by <\/span>UNDP <\/span><\/a>showed that there are glaring disparities in education and income between men and women across Africa and other parts of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The World Economic Forum<\/span><\/a> revealed in 2015 that a woman will be paid KES 62 for every KES 100 a man is paid for the same job. In 2017, the same forum predicted that it would take 100 years to close the gender gap. This means that women in the workplace have to wait another century to be paid equally as their male counterparts who match their education and skills background. <\/span><\/p>\n

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