Will this UK gender audit close the wage gap between company people and work/life balance people?
An audit isn’t a tool to fix the wage-gap. If anything, it can determine the wage-gap within the parameters used in the audit/study. If the audit can identify the extent to which the various factors that play into the wage-gap actually play into the wage-gap, then half of the battle is won. I quote : ‘According to the government’s Women and Work Commission, in the 30 years since pay discrimination was outlawed, women are still earning 17 per cent less than men, a figure which could potentially cost the UK economy 23 billion a year. In response to the commission’s findings, the government has released new policies to tackle gender inequalities in pay, but will they be enough? According to the Fawcett Society, under the current system it will be 80 years before women working full-time earn as much as their male counterparts, and 140 years before part-time female workers catch up with men. Despite girls consistently outperforming boys at GCSE, A level and degree, findings show that within
