Nicola Harkin

Now, that's not a new rule.

We've had that for decades, that there needs to be equal pay for work of equal value.

So that's not new.

But the gender pay gap is obviously a different animal altogether.

And this directive...

won't in itself solve the gender pay gap, which is different to equal pay for work of equal value, because the drivers of the gender pay gap are much more diverse than what is purely within the employer's control.

We've got the occupational segregation, the gender stereotyping, you know.

the need for it to be influenced even at early educational level.

So in order to address the gender pay gap and to achieve the ultimate aim of the pay transparency of achieving gender equality, I think it'll require that whole of society approach.

And it's, I think, unrealistic to expect the pay transparency directive to achieve that ultimate aim.

To really address the gender pay gap, we need to look at the actual drivers of it, take a whole of society approach to addressing it and not leave it only at the door of employers in implementing the pay transparency directive.