Category: Gender Pay
What is Equal Pay Day and why does it matter?
Sarah Nash | 22 November 2024
Equal Pay | Equal Pay Audits | Gender Pay | Gender Pay Reporting | Job evaluation
This Wednesday, the 20 November 2024, was Equal Pay Day. It’s a national campaign led by the Fawcett Society, a UK charity championing gender equality and women’s rights at work.
What is Intersectionality and how does it apply to the Pay Gap?
Sarah Lardner | 26 September 2024
The pay gap regulation is currently relatively simple: it looks at the difference in average earnings between men and women. While this is a start, the average does not begin to account for variation across different groups. In short, it is too simplistic.
Going beyond the headlines - what can we do to improve our pay gaps?
Genni Fisk | 05 April 2024
Pay Transparency | Pay Fairness | Gender Pay | Pay
It’s been 7 years since the Government introduced annual Gender Pay Gap reporting regulations for companies with 250+ employees, and whilst the national median pay gap has narrowed since then, progress has been somewhat subdued with an overall decrease of just 4%. But why is this the case?
Understanding your Gender Pay data and turning this into actionable intelligence
Sarah Nash | 06 February 2024
Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting
There has been little progress* (4%) made in narrowing the gender pay gap since mandated by the Gender Pay Gap Regulations in 2017. The average pay gap of employers assessed remains stubbornly at 14.3% (ONS).
8 Practical Tips to address Gender Pay Reporting
Justine Woolf | 26 January 2024
Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting
Uncover the essential 'Do's and Don'ts' for Gender Pay Reporting.
Four Essential Steps to Address Pay Gaps and Equality
Sarah Lardner | 12 January 2024
Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting
Unveiling the Gender Pay Gap: A Deep Dive into the UK's Ranking and Strategies for Accelerating Change.
Women in the workplace – policies needed to unlock gender equality
Justine Woolf | 04 January 2024
Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting | Women in leadership | Thought Leadership
Seven years have now passed since gender pay gap reporting was first made mandatory in the UK and nobody could deny that issues of gender distribution in business remain the same: in simple terms, there are more men at the top and more women at the bottom.
Practical measures to tackle pay gaps
Justine Woolf | 03 November 2023
Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting
Instances of unequal pay can manifest all too easily, but they can also be guarded against by building a greater understanding of the data available, and then auditing and benchmarking, which often requires outside help. Here are some key areas for companies wanting to make genuine strides in this area.
Four essential steps to address pay gaps and equality
Justine Woolf | 27 October 2023
Equal Pay | Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting
According to a World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report published in July 2022 the UK’s gender pay gap ranking is 22 out of 146 countries, with Iceland, Finland and Norway topping the table with the smallest gaps. At the current rate of change, the report suggests the UK’s gender pay gap will take 132 years to close entirely. A sobering thought.
5 years of gender pay – What have we learnt? What has changed? How can we progress beyond headline reporting?
Sarah Nash | 31 March 2023
Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting
Once every year thousands of companies are required to publish their new gender pay gap figures, and that ‘snapshot’ date has just ticked over for 2023. For most public authority employers, the clock strikes at midnight on 30 March and for everybody else the figures are due five days later at midnight on 4 April.
Rethinking your long-term talent strategy to address pay gaps
28 October 2022
Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting
How do you make sure you always hire the right person for the job, while maintaining a balanced outlook when it comes to gender, ethnicity and disability? To answer this, we need to explore five main areas of talent management: Diversity in recruitment; Succession planning; Performance management; Learning and Development; and Retention. In this article I’ll be looking at the first three of these key pillars.
What is the future for gender, ethnicity, and other pay gap reporting?
07 October 2022
Equal Pay | Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting | Ethnicity Pay Reporting
Only five years have passed since gender pay gap reporting was first made mandatory in the UK and a lot has gone on since 2017. Before the pandemic, we were only just starting to scratch the surface in terms of drawing patterns and tracing trends, and furlough blew a lot of that data out of the window by opening up short term pay gaps which are only now starting to recede back. The data and data-gathering in this whole area is still very immature and could certainly benefit from more introspection, checks and balances in several key areas.
