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The U.K. has a persistent gender pay gap, the most significant factors associated with which are part-time work, education, the size of the firm from which the sample is taken, and occupational segregation (women are under-represented in managerial and high-paying professional occupations.) [14] When comparing full-time roles, men in the U.K ...
Women in the UK are still being paid less than men despite the gender pay gap shrinking for the second year in a row.
The 2015 pay gap quoted was for full-time employees. [18] The Society publicises an annual Equal Pay Day, marking the day that women in effect stop being paid when calculated using the full-time mean average gender pay gap. [19] In September 2021 the Society published its analysis of the gender gap among local councillors in the UK, showing ...
The gender pay gap among full-time employees aged under 40 years was close to zero. [25] This gender pay gap is not a measure of the pay difference between men and women doing the same job, but a measure of the pay difference between men and women across all occupations in the United Kingdom. [25]
The Global Gender Gap Report 2015 ranks Singapore's gender gap at 54th out of 145 states globally based on the economic participation and opportunity, the educational attainment, the health and survival, and the political empowerment sub-indexes (a lower rank means a smaller gender gap). The gender gap narrowed from 2014's ranking of 59.
Gender Pay Gap Figures. On the heels of Internationals Women's Day, Salesforce, an American cloud computing company, announced its plan to combat gender pay differences in the company.
United Kingdom employment equality law is a body of law which legislates against prejudice-based actions in the workplace. As an integral part of UK labour law it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because they have one of the "protected characteristics", which are, age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy and ...
The Equal Pay Act 1970 (c. 41) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that prohibited any less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment. The act was proposed by the then Labour government, and was based on the Equal Pay Act of 1963 of the United States.