![]() However, nearly half (41%) of employed women work part-time compared with only 16% of men and there is a big hourly pay penalty for working part-time (27% for women, 37% for men). In Bristol in 2019 (later data is confused by the pandemic), the gap in median pay between full-time women and full-time men was 6.3%. ![]() Most measure the average based on the median: the mid-point at which half earn less, and half earn more. There are many different gender pay gaps that can be calculated: relative to geography or other identifying factors, salary range/pay grade and different work patterns. Gender pay gap refers the average hourly pay of a group of women employees compared with that of a group of men employees. However, failures to comply with equal pay laws are not common enough to explain the ‘Gender Pay Gap’ most of the gap is due to the different jobs which tend to be done by women and men and whether they are full-time or part-time. It is a legal requirement in the UK and a woman can take an employer to tribunal to have it enforced. Equal pay for equal workĮqual pay means that a woman is paid the same per hour as a man for doing either the same work or work assessed as of equal value. Last year, our Economy Task Group produced Delivering an Inclusive Economy Post-Covid-19, a report which outlined many of the ways in which women have been disproportionately affected from taking on more unpaid care duties to being more likely to be furloughed or made redundant. We know that the pandemic has hit women harder than men. Bristol One City has an ambitious goal of 2040 – which, of course, we are all hoping to deliver even sooner. Last year, the UN predicted it would take 250 years to achieve equal pay between women and men globally. Without equal pay, we will never achieve this. It’s a day on which we take stock of where we are in terms of the gender pay gap here in Bristol, and shine a light on what more is needed to achieve gender equality.īristol Women’s Commission was set up eight years ago to deliver on the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life. ![]() Today – 18 September 2021 – is International Equal Pay Day. Today’s guest blog is from Jackie Longworth, from Bristol Women’s Commission’sĮconomy Task Force and Chair of Fair Play South West. ![]()
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