Zim women underpaid: Survey

Datasol, the average salary for a Zimbabwean male is US$1 400 while that of women is averaging US$1 100 across all sectors.
This translates into an annual pay gap of US$3 500.
Gender and communication specialist Ms Lucy Mazingi said the majority of employers in the country are yet to correct the imbalance.
“Zimbabwe is a signatory to many international labour instruments which prohibit discrimination and advocates for equal pay for work of equal value respectively in the world of work. 
“Despite these being ratified by our Government there are glaring gaps in terms of what men and women earn in formal employment,” she said.
She said male-dominated occupations tend to pay more than female-dominated ones since many occupations that are traditionally held by men are high-wage, high-growth jobs like manufacturing and production and mining. “Women are more likely to work in low-wage; ‘pink-collar’ jobs such as administration, tourism, teaching, child care and nursing, thus fuelling the gender wage gap,” Ms Mazingi said. The survey also revealed that the gap tends to grow wider where the women are more educated in favour of men.
The pay gap for women who went up to secondary education level is US$92 and grows to US$308 for those at diploma level. It becomes a whopping US$564 for women at postgraduate level.
Zimbabwean employers are lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of narrowing the pay gap that currently stands at 19,4 percent.