Facilitating an NHRI Gender Audit
Example
A document review of the staff salary policy indicates the top salary for senior women staff is the same
as the top salary for senior men staff. Your initial analysis may be that your NHRI’s salary policy is gender
equitable.
However, when cross referencing the number of women staff receiving top salaries against the number of
men staff receiving top salaries, you discover there is one woman being paid at the senior level and five
men being paid at the senior level.
Upon triangulating the information further, comparing it with comments from staff, you determine that
women find it difficult to win senior positions.
By using multiple audit methods and triangulating several data sources, you conclude that while the
salary policy appears fair, there are barriers for women to achieving higher salaries in the NHRI.
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