Auditing isn’t enough, real action must be taken to ensure we are driving change and bringing equality closer every day
The gender pay gap is rightly making headlines on television and in print. Paying women less than men for doing the same job is not only discriminatory, but narrow-minded and detrimental to a successful, profitable business.
This week saw the deadline for private companies with more than 250 employees to reveal the difference in hourly rate paid to men and women. In the run up to this deadline we have seen that nine out of ten public sector employers pay men more than women, with women paid on average 14% less than male colleagues.
Of those private companies that have filed their figures, 78% pay men more than women, while 13% pay women more. Just 8% said they had no gender pay gap at all, based on the median measure. In some cases the gender pay gap is enormous – rising to more than 70%. These figures are of course unacceptable – and show the huge amount of work still to be done.
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