• According to a report released by Monster.com, the gap involving the pay scale to gender ratio has narrowed by 5 percentage points in India, but women in the same official position as men earn 20% less for doing the same work.

Important highlights:

• The current gender pay gap in India stands at 20% where men earned a median gross hourly salary of Rs. 231, while women earned Rs. 184.8.
• The gap has narrowed by about five percentage points from 24.8 % in 2016.
• The index also revealed that gender pay gap in India increases with work experience.
• While men with 0-2 years of experience earned 7.8% higher median wages than women, men with 6-10 years of experience earned 15.3% more. Men with 11 and more years of experience earned 25 % higher median wages than women.
• This index was complimented with the findings from the second annual survey titled Women of India Inc. also undertaken by Monster.com.
• Maximum share of participation from Delhi NCR at 24 %, followed by Mumbai (22 %) and Bengaluru at 20 %. The participation from non-metros was at 36 %.
• Around 47% of women felt that the most notable form of discrimination is perception that women are less serious about work once they are married.
• About 46% women feel that maternity leads to a perception that they will quit and the same percentage of women also believe that there is a notion that women can’t put the same number of hours as men.