HR EXPERTS SAY SINGAPORE NEEDS TO WORK HARDER TO TACKLE GENDER PAY INEQUALITY
August 1st, 2017
AN EXPERT from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has told businesses in the city state that they need to work harder to ensure they pay women and men equally for the same for level of work.
Its call came after a study found that Singapore’s gender pay gap has not improved in the last decade.
By 2006, Singapore’s median gross monthly income for men was about Singapore dollars SGD2,452 (USD1,810)- 19% higher than the median income for women at SGD2,053 (USD1,515), according to a study by New York-based data resource group Value Penguin. It said that ...
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