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The World Economic Forum estimates that it will take over 200 years to close the gender pay gap. No one should have the patience to wait that long. How can we accelerate change? The answer may lay in data and models with a good dose of transparency.

The journey starts with gathering the data and understanding the pay structure. Then companies move on to identifying areas for improvement and eliminating unexplained demographic pay gaps through corrective action—in other words, ensuring equal pay for equal work.

New Business Venture Fund har investerat 525 000 USD i programvaruföretaget PayAnalytics.

PayAnalytics har utvecklat en molnlösning för lika lön och vuxit snabbt de senaste åren. Deras lösning hjälper redan över 50 företag och organisationer på Island att eliminera löneklyftan mellan könen och sysselsätter totalt 30 000 anställda, eller cirka 14 % av den isländska arbetsmarknaden.

It is amazing to see one of our partners, the insurance company Sjóvá, perform so well. A company with 60% women on the board of directors and a female chair.

GEMMAQ rates companies in global markets based on how gender balanced their leadership is and is building a corporate gender equality and diversity rating and indexing system.

In a recent article, World-at-work set the spotlight on Reykjavík Energy and their pay equity work. Pay equity has been top-of-mind for Reykjavik Energy for quite some time, even before the topic was regularly making headlines.

The National University Hospital of Iceland has signed a contract to use PayAnalytics for their equal pay analyses.

Copenhagen Business School @CBScph recently published a "How I did it" story on @PayAnalytics. Read the full story on the CBS website.

"Our goal was to build an easy-to-use application that puts analytics in the hands of HR managers. We have created a web platform that enables users to walk through the process of statistically measuring their pay gaps."

Vidir discusses the ways to close the gender pay gap at Reykjavik Energy, using PayAnalytics software with journalists at Wirtschaftswoche.

Jon Henley, Guardian's Europe correspondent takes a look at how the Icelandic legislation has changed to combat the gender pay gap. One of the people cited in the article is the CEO of Reykjavik Energy. Reykjavik Energy has used PayAnalytics' software in their efforts to close the pay gap. We are proud to be part of their gender lens.