However, this basic point has been made for a long time now (see, for example, Jordan Peterson's recent infamous interview on Channel 4) and it's becoming increasingly obvious that those obsessed
with the gender pay gap don't have an answer to it.
2017 was a busy year for HR and employment law practitioners and 2018 looks full of challenges too,
with gender pay gap reporting and data protection regulation being top of many agendas in the first quarter.
Gender disparities in college major choice are associated
with the gender pay gap as well as an insufficiently large and diverse labor pool of scientific talent in some of the highest - growing fields in our increasingly scientific global economy.
Not exact matches
«There's a full section that talks about
pay equity, and what is the larger impact that the
gender pay gap has on our society, our economy, our families,» says Deepti Gudipati, vice president of member leadership programs for the AAUW, who is working
with the city to roll out the program.
Even when comparing the sexes
with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the
gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.
Even
with more women settling into the role of family breadwinner, the
gender pay gap only rarely settles in their favor.
While the car company clearly wants to take a stance on and do something to ameliorate the
gender pay gap, the commercial has garnered criticism on social media,
with some saying that Audi's hiring practices don't reflect the message of the likely well - intentioned ad.
The ride - sharing replaced its car icons
with symbols representing the
gender wage
gap — an unequal sign, to be exact — in honor of Equal
Pay Day Tuesday, aiming to raise awareness about an issue that still plagues women in the workplace.
The
gender gap in wages has widened by a penny in Maryland over the past two years,
with women in the state typically
paid 84 cents for every dollar
paid to men, according to a study released Monday.
On the bright side, the
gender pay gap is almost nonexistent in this new economy,
with the average tax - free side income for men at $ 3,147, compared
with $ 3,038 for women.
All organisations
with more than 250 employees must publish data showing their
gender pay gaps by April next year.
Closer to home, the UK
gender pay gap widened at the end of 2013, and in Dove's latest survey, 41 % of British women reported being unhappy
with their appearance and body shape.
Aspects relating to audits of firms in a bid to narrow the
gender pay gap are still under review by the government, however,
with an eye to avoiding placing any new demands on British business as the economy emerges from recession.
At 4 p.m., Hochul discusses a new state plan to close the
gender wage
gap on Equal
Pay Day
with Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, Susan B. Anthony Square, 31 Madison St., Rochester.
Meanwhile Tory MEPs voted against a report on
paid paternity leave, reducing the
gender pay gap and combating violence against women, while UKIP MEPs opposed investigating tax evasion and avoidance, capping credit card charges and labelling processed meat
with its country of origin.
Jeremy Corbyn has also advocated installing a «real» living wage and announced that companies
with more than 21 employees to publish earnings data in a bid to close the
gender pay gap.
Employers
with over 250 members of staff are entering the «last chance saloon'to report their
gender pay gap, the Equality and Human Rights...
We are committed to transparency on the
gender pay gap, in line
with our commitment to equality.
He argued that only the Labour Party could fight the
gender pay gap, or deal
with the tax rises and benefits cuts which hit the poorest in society.
But black, Hispanic, AIAN, and NHPI women experienced a smaller
gender pay gap compared
with men in the same racial / ethnic group than did white and Asian women.
The Forbes list has traditionally reignited the debate about the
gender pay gap in Hollywood,
with Lawrence expressing anger at the disparity between male and female stars»
pay in an essay last October.
Gemma Arterton
with guests Eileen Pullen and Gwen Davis, two former sewing machine operators who famously went on strike in a Dagenham car plant in 1968 in protest against the
gender pay gap.
Once the show began, the messages in support of women and equality didn't stop: Natalie Portman, while presenting best director
with Ron Howard, noted how only men had been nominated (Lady Bird filmmaker Greta Gerwig was a high profile snub); presenters Jessica Chastain and Geena Davis, respectively, also made jokes about male acting winners giving their salary away to make up for the
gender pay gap.
Academy trusts and schools
with over 250 workers have one year to publish their
gender pay gap data, following new rules.
The discriminatory impact of this compromise lessened as the
gender gap in master's degree attainment narrowed, and more subtle means of discrimination were hampered by nearly universal adoption of the uniform salary schedule,
with teachers»
pay based only on experience and education.
The study concluded: «Changing the learning environment and designing the curriculum to identify and foster girls
with high mathematical abilities would attract more girls and reduce the
gender pay gap.»
Large
gender gaps exist in field of study,
with men favoring high
paying fields.
I am sure it has nothing to do
with racial and
gender pay gaps or banks not giving mortgage or small business loans to minorities.
«For women
with college degrees, especially black and Hispanic women, the
gender pay gap means that student loan debt may hang over their heads for many more years to come,» the report said.
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The finding, from a new Law Society study of solicitors» salaries in 2012, compares badly
with the national picture: the law's
gender pay gap is well over double the 9.6 % difference between men and women's
pay across the UK as a whole, as reported by the Office for National Statistics.
Employers have one year to release the data, but we expect those
with low
gender pay gaps to publish early.
The
gender pay league tables that will emerge a year from now will require employers to step up their D&I initiatives and engage
with their PR team but they will not move the needle on the issue of the
gender pay gap.
The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee is now calling for written submissions to the
gender pay gap inquiry,
with a view to examining whether sanctions for non-compliance would be effective and whether it needs to gather more information.
With a month to go until the
gender pay gap reporting deadline, only 1,000 companies have submitted their reports.
In contrast, those firms
with a higher
gender pay gap are likely to be more hesitant, watching the media reactions anxiously and then choosing their moment to release their own data.
With the results of the
Gender Pay Gap showcasing a huge disparity between men and women in the workplace, we...
In London, the
gender pay gap has barely changed in over two decades,
with full - time female employees...
The requirement for companies
with more than 250 employees to publish
gender pay gap information (expected 6 April 2017).
The
Gender Pay Gap Information Regulations 2016 come into force today,
with the first reports from employers due no later than 4 April 2018.
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With that purpose in mind, the Regulations impose certain «gender pay gap» reporting obligations on private or voluntary sector employers with 250 or more employ
With that purpose in mind, the Regulations impose certain «
gender pay gap» reporting obligations on private or voluntary sector employers
with 250 or more employ
with 250 or more employees.
On the 5th April 2017, the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations of 2017 brought in a requirement that forces UK companies
with a total «headcount» of more than 250 in any one year, to publish data about their
gender pay gap.
An additional reform contained within the Equality Act 2010, and which again is aimed at ensuring transparency as far as possible, is that there will exist a power to require employers
with 250 or more employees to provide reports on the
gender pay gap in their business.
Law firms have begun publicly reporting their
gender pay gap, as all employers
with more than 250 employees are legally required to do by April.
With regards to parental leave and wellbeing there are some interesting changes proposed; both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are pushing for an extended period of
paid paternity leave, to encourage shared parental responsibilities and perhaps be a positive step towards closing the
gender wage
gap.
Additionally, Theresa May has sworn to continue efforts to close the
gender pay gap, by requiring companies
with more than 250 employees to publish data on their
gender pay gap.
Research has highlighted that despite 80 % of UK industries guilty of a
gender pay gap, beneath the scrutiny there are industries that actually represent a narrower
pay gap,
with some of the highest
paid jobs in the UK, possessing a less than 10 %
pay gap difference.
All private and voluntary sector employers in England, Wales and Scotland
with at least 250 employees will be required to publish
gender pay gap information.