The Pay Slap
We all know that women earn less than men, but most of us would be shocked to think that in the 30 years since pay discrimination was outlawed, women are still earning 17 percent less than men.
Short shrift
We’re supposed to have had equal pay with men since the 1970s, so what’s going wrong? The Women’s Unit talks about the difference between the ‘gender gap’ (the amount you lose simply by being a woman) and the ‘mother gap’ (the cost in earnings of becoming a mother). The ‘mother gap’ might be explained by time out of the workplace looking after children, and the fact that when women return they often return at a lower grade, or into a part-time job. Part time work doesn’t just pay less per week than full time work, it tends to pay less per hour too. Women working full time earn 87p an hour for every £1 earned by a man. Women working part time (and just over half of women in paid work, work part time) earn less than 60p for every £1 earned by a man.
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