Gender pay gap: women effectively working for free until end of year
Today, a Guardian article was released where Fawcett Society (Charity focussed on advancing women's rights and equality in Britain) calculation have set a symbolic date as 9 November, were women are effectively working for free until end of year. Men in full-time work earning over 14% more than women!
My thoughts: The manipulation in effect here is actually that apples are being compared to oranges. The article is looking at average full time play for all men and women working in Britain, but aren't looking at career choices, education and experience. For example, there are more men than women working in engineering, a very lucrative field, while there are far more women than men working in fields such as childcare, a relatively low paying field. You can't compare what a child carer earns to something an engineer earns and then claim to have found a substantial gender wage gap.
However, the statistics used are very helpful towards my dissertation especially with chapter one where I can compare the stats from the Equal Pay Act of 1970 and compare it with today.
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