It has been one year since the enactment of Directive 2023/970 of the European Parliament, also known as the Salary Transparency Law. This law will require all companies to make public the salary ranges of all their employees. In other words, you will know if your colleagues receive the same salary as you for doing the same job. With this measure, the European Directive aims to strengthen equal pay between men and women for work of equal value, setting the gender pay gap at a maximum of 5%, compared to the current European average of 13%. The law came into
You want the figure 5B from here:
https://www.henrikkleven.com/uploads/3/7/3/1/37310663/kleven-landais-sogaard_aej-applied_sep2018.pdf
The rest of the paper actually focuses on the real reasons behind the pay gap, which should also give you a perspective of why it’s probably futile to argue in terms of “a woman makes 78 cents for every dollar a man makes”.
But if you really wanna dig deeper there are some studies that try to figure out the remaining 3% or whatever.