--- title: It Will Take 75 Years Until Women Achieve Equal Pay description: Oxfam released a report today encouraging G20 countries to asses their agendas on gender inequality during the Summit this fall. canonical: https://time.com/2981602/gender-equality-wage-gap-g20/ author: Hannah Goldberg article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-14T20:59:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:39.243Z og:title: It Will Take 75 Years for Women to Achieve Equal Pay og:description: Oxfam released a report today encouraging G20 countries to asses their agendas on gender inequality during the Summit this fall. og:url: https://time.com/2981602/gender-equality-wage-gap-g20/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: It Will Take 75 Years for Women to Achieve Equal Pay twitter:description: Oxfam released a report today encouraging G20 countries to asses their agendas on gender inequality during the Summit this fall. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # It Will Take 75 Years for Women to Achieve Equal Pay, Says Oxfam > Sponsored content. 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The agency is encouraging G20 countries to asses their agendas on gender inequality when they summit in Australia later this year. Oxfam asks member countries to extend their commitment to tackling barriers to women’s social and economic participation set in the 2012 Los Cabos Declaration. Long-standing gender discrimination and poverty prevent women from realizing their full economic potential, which can suppress a country’s economic growth. The report works to address the systematic issues present in member countries by incorporating gender equality measures in fiscal economic policy and social infrastructure and governance—one measure suggests redistributing taxes to compensate for wage gaps. With the worlds largest economies, G20 members have a lot to gain from a gender-equitable economy. Oxfam’s Executive Director Winnie Byanyima explained the shortcomings. “Meanwhile, if women’s paid employment rates were the same as men’s, the USA’s GDP would increase by nine per cent, the Eurozone’s by 13 per cent and Japan’s by 16 per cent,” said Byanyima. 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