Here, DiversityQ examines the results of this year’s gender pay gap submissions, why firms aren’t confident enough about submitting their data, and what can be done to close the gender pay gap.
Following raised awareness about sexual violence and harassment against women, other factors of women’s inequality are also being discussed, including the gender pay gap. But with news that the gender pay gap hasn’t improved for this year’s 2020/2021 reporting deadline, we need to explore what businesses are doing wrong.
According to the BBC, the average gender pay gap of all the firms that reported their gender pay statistics in the past financial year is 10.4%, the same as the average of all firms reporting in 2019/2020.
