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Jordan's National Steering Committee for Pay Equity (NSCPE)

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Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 72% 48/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Since 2011, Jordan's National Steering Committee for Pay Equity, co-chaired by the National Commission for Women and Ministry of Labour with ILO support, has diagnosed sector pay gaps up to 41.6% and pushed pay equity into national employment strategy, without a binding law yet.

41.6%
Gender pay gap, private education sector
28%
Gender pay gap, public sector
41.3%
Gender pay gap, manufacturing
Jordan's National Steering Committee for Pay Equity (NSCPE)

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW) & Ministry of Labour, with ILO technical support
Period
2011-present
Keywords
labour policy, tripartite social dialogue, pay equity

Context

Jordan's National Steering Committee for Pay Equity (NSCPE) was launched in July 2011 as a tripartite-plus body -- government, the Jordanian National Commission for Women, the Ministry of Labour, trade unions, employers' associations, civil society and media -- built on ILO technical cooperation begun in 2010.

Results

The Committee commissioned an ILO-supported study of the gender pay gap in Jordan's private education sector, finding women teachers earned 41.6% less than men. Related diagnostics cited by the ILO put the gap at roughly 28% in the public sector, 41.3% in manufacturing, 27.9% in health and social work, and 24.5% in education overall.

Conclusions

More than a decade on, the Committee has produced diagnosis, training and legislative-review recommendations, but Jordan has not enacted a binding equal-pay or pay-transparency law. The ILO's continued Equal Pay Day campaigns indicate the wage gaps identified in 2011-2013 have not been independently confirmed as closed.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Supported by ILO technical cooperation; no published committee budget.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Operating continuously since 2011.
Staffing & skills
Jordanian National Commission for Women, Ministry of Labour, ILO technical advisors

Conditions for success

  • tripartite-plus governance combining government, unions, employers and civil society

Common failure modes

  • no binding equal-pay or pay-transparency law enacted after over a decade

Where it fits

Governance type
national tripartite body
Scale
national
Income level
upper-middle-income

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