The Gender Pay Gap- total and complete *******s

[Peter]

It's the former. Which is probably why the public sector attracts work shy, unambitious, presumptuous, left wing champagne socialists who drain the public funds while providing limited value to society as a whole.*

*Not that Peter is anything like this, of course.

Me? Certainly not. I don't particularly care for champagne.

[Burney]

But what of conscious and unconscious bias that leads to women being overlooked for appointments and promotions?

What of inflexible working that makes it hard for women to have a family and maintain a career?

What of the large numbers of women who report feeling discriminated against in the workplace for having a baby?

What of the entrenched patriarchal norms that mean only 1% of men have bothered taking advantage of new shared parental leave?

What of women being reluctant to take on lucrative nighttime shift-work due to legitimate fears about their safety?

What of society's continued under-appreciation of essential but low-paid 'caring' jobs that are disproportionately made up of a female workforce (because of gender norms)?

This made me laugh

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[SWv2]

It's all bóllocks.

See also the outrage at Facebook for doing whatever they did with people's data.

Also all this #metoo nonsense.

Bóllocks the lot of it.

[Peter]

It's all bóllocks.

See also the outrage at Facebook for doing whatever they did with people's data.

Also all this #metoo nonsense.

Bóllocks the lot of it.

Well, quite

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

Apparently women at my company earn 11% less than men.

Now.... there are around 2500 employees of whom everyone apart from the executive (around 30 people) are paid on a grade and a scale. Everyone is appointed to the grade for their job and the scale depends entirely on salary of your previous post.

In other words, 2470 people are paid exactly the same as their counterparts and it is not possible for gender to be an issue in Agreeing the scale.

Within the executive, of 30 people, around25 of these are women. There are hardly any men apart from the CEO.

The only possible explanation is that women hold a higher proportion of the lower paying jobs. within those roles they are paid precisely the same as the men.

THere are two solutions- either pay women more than men for doing the same job or stop employing women in the lower paid jobs. I wonder which way we will go

At my company...it is close to 35%

We just appointed our first ever female head of department towards the end of last year.