Using psychometric tests to improve diversity in the wo... Chaufher levelling the playing field in male-dominated ... Salesforce: 3 Ways To Improve Your Selling With Neuroscience, ONS figures reveal an Ethnicity Pay Gap far worse than the gender gap. When discussing the gender pay gap, it is important to include the impact that race and ethnicity have, as women from different ethnic groups are affected differently. By signing up, you agree to InHerSight's Terms and Privacy Policy, You now have access to all of our awesome content. However, a recent report from Resume.io has found that in two-thirds of female-dominated fields, women are still paid less than their male counterparts. A good example of an organization’s gender pay gap is an airline. However easy that fact may be to understand on a surface level (wethinks there’s discrimination afoot! That may well mean asking them. Emma Barnett Challenged A Man Who Openly Admits Cat-Calling 16-Year-Old Girls. The very people who are in charge of recruitment often lack the diversity necessary to create a diverse workforce. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. While women are generally still the victims of a gender pay gap, the disparity is even more pronounced with women of color in the US. According to the government’s Gender Pay Gap: Closing It Together campaign, gender diversity in the workplace improves the quality of employee, as they are taken from a wider talent pool, while the retention of staff boosts productivity and better meets the diverse needs of customers and suppliers. Your email address will not be published. And when to go with the single-tasking flow. An ‘Equal Pay Day’ – a day of the year when a woman’s pay equals a man’s – is currently set at April 10, so women would have to work nearly four extra months to ‘catch up’ with a male’s pay packet in general. Now it's up to you to put it into action. Just as there are male-dominated fields, there are also female-dominated ones, and they’re most often “care-oriented fields” such as education, nursing, child care, and administrative work. Beth Castle is on staff at InHerSight, where she writes about workplace rights, diversity and inclusion, allyship, and feminism. If not them, then that may well mean asking your boss. Little girls, as any trip to a toy shop or nursery will show you, are still pointed towards soft toys, cooking, dolls and princess shit. This means that there is likely to be a gender pay gap in some airlines unless there are more female pilots. Compared to other countries in Europe, the US has lagged behind in terms of transparency over men and women’s pay. Here’s Why You Should Encourage Gender Equality in Your Company, [Infographic] The Gender Wage Gap By The Numbers, Transform your organizational culture by teaching managers to care. Interestingly, the report found that Chinese women in Britain have outperformed white British men, but their gender pay gap with Chinese men has widened over the past decade from 4.6% to 11.5%. First published on Fri 5 Apr 2019 06.00 BST. The fact is that, across all well-paid jobs, industries and offices, men who went to school together, knew each other at university, played football together or went out drinking together will help each other out at work later on. A group of female MPs, led by Stella Creasy, have joined together to form the #PayMeToo campaign, to encourage women to hold their employers to account and demand action over the gender pay gap. Many of these would have a gender pay gap since the job of a pilot – a role mainly filled by men – pays much more than cabin crew, where women traditionally dominate. That means that even after a full year of equal work, women don’t earn their fair share until late March or early April—the following year—a day marked as Equal Pay Day.