‘Equal Pay’ Gap in the UK Widens Again
Recent reports show that the gender ‘equal pay’ gap in the UK has widened again.
According to an analysis by the Financial Times of official data submitted by employers, the disparity between what men and women earn in the same companies is getting worse in many sectors in the UK, particularly in the finance sector.
Women were paid 87p for every £1 paid to men in April 2020 — when the Government compiled the latest figures. This was worse than in 2019, when the pay gap was 12.8 per cent, and in 2018, when the gap was 11.9 per cent.
Our Managing Partner, David Sorensen commented, “it’s astonishing to think that equal pay came into force in 1970 and not only are we still so far away from achieving true gender equality in pay but the gap is getting worse not better. The Government needs to change the law to make it easier to require an employer to pay equally between men and women, and also ensure ethnicity and nationality do not adversely affect pay. The UK has a long way to go to fix this massive problem”.
