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Can the state set decent standards for gender equality?

Can the state set decent standards for gender equality? . Jill Rubery European Work and Employment Research Centre Manchester Business School University of Manchester . The importance of the public sector for gender equality .

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Can the state set decent standards for gender equality?

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  1. Can the state set decent standards for gender equality? Jill Rubery European Work and Employment Research Centre Manchester Business School University of Manchester

  2. The importance of the public sector for gender equality • Source of employment opportunities and source of support services for employment integration (only effective alternative to female domestic labour) • Potential for protection in pay and employment practices from discrimination/ from organisation of labour market around male lifecourse • Space for alternative social values- social choice over how to value care work, for example

  3. Gender equality and the public sector

  4. Female employment in the public sector (NACE O, P, Q), 2010 Source: ELFS

  5. Work–life balance options in the public sector • Source: adapted from Rubery (2013: table 2.6).

  6. Women in most but not all countries paid more in public than private sectors Public-private gaps in average pay in five countries, national data 2010

  7. But pay premium disappears if compare to male private sector pay Public and private sector pay for men and women relative to average male earnings in the private sector, 2010

  8. Lower paid fare better in public sector but part-timers also have better career opportunities . Inter-decile wage ratios in the public and private sectors, five countries, 2010

  9. High degree of social choice over pay for professions- very low pay in feminised public professions in eastern Europe • Comparative levels of teachers’ pay • Source : OECD (2011a, 2012).

  10. Pensions in public compared to private sectors: importance depends on statutory system

  11. Gender equality policy programmes and trade union equality campaigns in the public sector • Source: adapted from Anxo et al. (2010) and Rubery (2013: box 2.1 and box 2.2).

  12. Variations in the contribution of the public sector to gender equality

  13. Public sector adjustment and implications for gender equality

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