16 Feb 2023 --- Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is fighting the gender pay gap in waste picking to empower women and raise awareness of the climate crisis. The pay gap between sexes persists throughout the workforce. Gender inequality is spread across the pay spectrum from the top – with every dollar a male CEO earns, female CEOs earn US$0.86, according to a report by Kruze Consulting – to the opposite end with waste collectors.
