Equal pay thanks to database

Currently the World Economic Forum predicts that it could take 217 years to close the global gender pay gap. Indeed, women are still paid on average 20% less than men and they earn 0.98$ for every dollar an equivalent male worker makes. Some experts say it is due to sexist issues such as glass ceilling or a lack of self-confidence.

How database could widden the gender pay gap ?

Database is a set of data and the way it is organised. A tech entrepreneur has already designed software which could tackle gender pay gap. By using database and implemeting efficient Queries in companies, equal pay could be not only aimed by women but also by other ethnic and religious minorities. Indeed, if all employees of a company can access easily to anonymous up-to-date data, which includes diploma, experience, previous jobs, previous wedge negociation, hierarchy, but also gender, it could bring managers under social pressure to act in favour of equal pay. It could also bring new arguments to women for further wedge negociation.

How does it work ?

  • The company can use Firebase.
  • The HR departement shares stored data about the employees on Firebase

    • Data about an employee look like this:
    As you can see, all data which could disclosure the employee's identity, such as age, is hidden, except gender because is the factor we want to test in our company.
  • The HR departement can export data from Firebase to JSON files and implement it in the glitch project as follow:
  • To make it easy to use for employees, we must use Queries to sort data out. Employees do not earn the same if they work in the marketing or financial departement for example. That is why employees must be able to search for employees with similar profile. To do so, we have to copy and paste the following scripts into the bottom of the tag, but before you use any Firebase services.