The Equality Act and the release of Made in Dagenham have brought the gender pay gap into the headlines again. The Coalition has been criticised for watering down the requirement for businesses to publish details of pay differences between male and female employees. This criticism, like much of the reporting on the subject in recent days, starts from the assumption that gender-based pay differentials are based on discrimination by employers. The evidence, though, indicates that outright sex discrimination is no longer the major cause of the gender pay gap.
A report published yesterday by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) finds that the gender pay gap between the median earnings of male and female workers is 22 percent, and 12.2 percent between male and female full-time workers. To a large extent, this reflects the difference in pay levels between full-time and part-time work. It is extremely difficult to get part-time work at a…
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