Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Mongolia (Ratification: 1969)

Previous comments: Observation and direct request

Articles 1–4 of the Convention. Assessing and addressing the gender pay gap and its underlying causes. The Committee notes the Government’s indication in its report that according to the National Statistics Office, on average women’s monthly remuneration represented 81.8 per cent of men’s remuneration in 2022, thus corresponding to a 1.7 percentage point increase in the gender pay gap since 2019 (18.2 per cent in 2022 compared to 16.5 per cent in 2019). It observes that the gender pay gap was as high as 28.6 per cent in financial and insurance activities, where women represented 64.2 per cent of the workers. The Committee further notes that women remain concentrated in lower-paid sectors such as accommodation and food services, education, health, wholesale and retail trade, while men are concentrated in mining, manufacturing, construction, transport and energy which are high-paid sectors. In that regard, it refers to its comments on the application of the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111), regarding the persistent vertical and horizontal segregation in the labour market. The Committee notes with regret that the Government does not provide information on any measures taken to address the underlying causes of the gender pay gap, including as a result of the National Wage Policy for 2019-2024 and its action plan. It further notes that, in its 2022 concluding observations, the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) expressed concern about the persistent gender pay gap in all sectors and the concentration of women in low-paid jobs in the formal and informal sectors (CEDAW/C/MNG/CO/10, 12 July 2022, paragraph 30). The Committee asks the Government to strengthen its efforts to address the gender pay gap, including by promoting the application of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value as enshrined in the Labour Law and the Convention, and its underlying causes, such as persistent vertical and horizontal occupational gender segregation, and gender stereotypes regarding women’s professional aspirations, preferences and capabilities, and their role in the family. It also asks the Government to provide information on: (i) any proactive measures taken and implemented to that end, including by enhancing women’s access to jobs with career prospects and higher pay; and (ii) the earnings of men and women in the various economic sectors, disaggregated by sex and occupational category, as well as any information available on the gender pay gap.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.