DNB ASA, Norway's biggest bank, achieved the highest score for equality between the sexes of all corporations in the Equileap Gender Equality Global Report & Ranking of 2021
I have to say this quote is telling: The solution is simple: the public can choose that government should pay a better wage to all its healthcare and other female-dominatedoccupations. This is...
I have to say this quote is telling:
Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg, the host of this year’s SHE conference in Oslo, says that despite equal access to education, Norwegian girls tend to opt for degrees that put them in lower-paid public-sector jobs. Norway is still struggling to figure out how to right this imbalance, Solberg said on Friday.
The solution is simple: the public can choose that government should pay a better wage to all its healthcare and other female-dominatedoccupations. This is purely a political priority.
Wealth inequality is closely linked with traditional labor choices and gender. How do you increase attractiveness and diversity in the workforce while lowering inequality? You boost wages.
It's not rocket science, but costs money. Is society willing to pay that money? In one of the richest countries in the world, the answer seems to be a resounding no.
I agree with your points and comparison. In Norway, teachers, healthcare workers and childcare workers all require similar levels of education. They're all highly dominated by public sector jobs....
I agree with your points and comparison.
In Norway, teachers, healthcare workers and childcare workers all require similar levels of education. They're all highly dominated by public sector jobs.
Yet government elects to pay healthcare workers and other more female-dominated jobs less. Less than technicians and janitors and other more traditionally male jobs.
That's a political priority. Just like in wage negotiations in 2020, healthcare workers and nurses got the worst level of relative pay increases of all public sector workers, despite getting huge amounts of public praise from politicians for going above and beyond the line of duty en masse.
In Norway, economic gender equality was set back significantly in 2020 through how different pandemic-related concerns were handled and where the public spending was directed. To me that just doesn't sit right. A crisis and large public stimulus is an opportunity for changing the status quo. Instead it was reinforced.
I have to say this quote is telling:
The solution is simple: the public can choose that government should pay a better wage to all its healthcare and other female-dominatedoccupations. This is purely a political priority.
Wealth inequality is closely linked with traditional labor choices and gender. How do you increase attractiveness and diversity in the workforce while lowering inequality? You boost wages.
It's not rocket science, but costs money. Is society willing to pay that money? In one of the richest countries in the world, the answer seems to be a resounding no.
I agree with your points and comparison.
In Norway, teachers, healthcare workers and childcare workers all require similar levels of education. They're all highly dominated by public sector jobs.
Yet government elects to pay healthcare workers and other more female-dominated jobs less. Less than technicians and janitors and other more traditionally male jobs.
That's a political priority. Just like in wage negotiations in 2020, healthcare workers and nurses got the worst level of relative pay increases of all public sector workers, despite getting huge amounts of public praise from politicians for going above and beyond the line of duty en masse.
In Norway, economic gender equality was set back significantly in 2020 through how different pandemic-related concerns were handled and where the public spending was directed. To me that just doesn't sit right. A crisis and large public stimulus is an opportunity for changing the status quo. Instead it was reinforced.