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By Equal Pay Day this year (November 20) female baristas working in coffee shops were paid, on average, 1.6 per cent more than their male colleagues. Conversely, male barristers earned on average 16.2 per cent more than their female counterparts. There is still a long way to go, Big Issue reports.
It is an accepted fact that women are more likely than men to work in low-paid roles and to shoulder the majority share of childcare and other caring responsibilities. But what are the worst job roles when it comes to wage equity today?
Gender equality charity the Fawcett Society has revealed that the gender pay gap decreased in 2022 when taking into account people working full and part-time roles. Women can currently expect to be paid just 11.3 per cent less than men, down from 11.9 per cent last year.
The charity says that this means from November 20, women essentially stop being paid for the work they do for the rest of the year. So the pay gap might well be decreasing, however, if it continues at this rate, it will take 30 years to close, according to Trades Union Congress calculations.
“It is unacceptable that the gender pay gap has barely shifted in the past few years,” Jemima Olchawski - CEO of the Fawcett Society - said.
The cost of living crisis is hitting women the hardest therefore, “women can’t afford to wait any longer for the gap to close,” Ms Olchawski added.
The equality charity also calculated that, when taking into account gross annual earnings for full-time and part-time workers, women in Britain take home £564 less than men.
To hasten the closure of the gap between what men and women are paid, the Fawcett Society is reportedly calling on the government to make flexible work the default with a requirement for jobs to be advertised as flexible up front, to enable more women to work.
The charity also said that employers must stop asking for salary history when offering women a job because this is a significant barrier to pay equality. Previous research found 58 per cent of women felt they had received a lower salary offer after having to disclose their previous earnings. Yet employers are increasingly leaving salaries off job adverts.
Activists are also campaigning for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting and action plans, given that women of colour face even higher discrimination.
Here are the jobs with the biggest and smallest gender pay gaps, as reported by the Office for National Statistics:
Top 10 UK jobs with the biggest gender pay gap in 2022
- Waste disposal and environmental services managers (34 per cent)
- Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians (30 per cent)
- Other educational professionals – (30 per cent)
- Business associate professionals – (28 per cent)
- Financial managers and directors (28 per cent)
- Healthcare practice managers (27 per cent)
- Newspaper and periodical editors (26 per cent)
- Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers (26 per cent)
- Water and sewerage plant operatives (25 per cent)
- Education managers (24 per cent)
Top 10 UK jobs where women are paid more than men in 2022
Here are the professions where women are actually paid more than men; roles that have a minus gender pay gap. Good news for the women who want to be secretaries, not so great news for those who want to be directors, managers or editors:
- Dancers and choreographers (-35 per cent)
- Special needs education teaching professionals (-23 per cent)
- Welfare professionals (-16 per cent)
- Information technology trainers (-15 per cent)
- Medical secretaries (-15 per cent)
- Personal assistants and other secretaries (-12 per cent)
- Chartered surveyors (-12 per cent)
- Energy plant operatives (-12 per cent)
- Generalist medical practitioners (-11 per cent)
- Legal secretaries (-10 per cent)
The gender pay gap is reportedly calculated by the ONS as “the difference between average hourly earnings (excluding overtime) of men and women as a proportion of men’s average hourly earnings (excluding overtime). It is a measure across all jobs in the UK, not of the difference in pay between men and women for doing the same job.”
Source: Big Issue
(Links and quotes via original reporting)
By Equal Pay Day this year (November 20) female baristas working in coffee shops were paid, on average, 1.6 per cent more than their male colleagues. Conversely, male barristers earned on average 16.2 per cent more than their female counterparts. There is still a long way to go, Big Issue reports.
It is an accepted fact that women are more likely than men to work in low-paid roles and to shoulder the majority share of childcare and other caring responsibilities. But what are the worst job roles when it comes to wage equity today?
Gender equality charity the Fawcett Society has revealed that the gender pay gap decreased in 2022 when taking into account people working full and part-time roles. Women can currently expect to be paid just 11.3 per cent less than men, down from 11.9 per cent last year.
The charity says that this means from November 20, women essentially stop being paid for the work they do for the rest of the year. So the pay gap might well be decreasing, however, if it continues at this rate, it will take 30 years to close, according to Trades Union Congress calculations.
“It is unacceptable that the gender pay gap has barely shifted in the past few years,” Jemima Olchawski - CEO of the Fawcett Society - said.
The cost of living crisis is hitting women the hardest therefore, “women can’t afford to wait any longer for the gap to close,” Ms Olchawski added.
The equality charity also calculated that, when taking into account gross annual earnings for full-time and part-time workers, women in Britain take home £564 less than men.
To hasten the closure of the gap between what men and women are paid, the Fawcett Society is reportedly calling on the government to make flexible work the default with a requirement for jobs to be advertised as flexible up front, to enable more women to work.
The charity also said that employers must stop asking for salary history when offering women a job because this is a significant barrier to pay equality. Previous research found 58 per cent of women felt they had received a lower salary offer after having to disclose their previous earnings. Yet employers are increasingly leaving salaries off job adverts.
Activists are also campaigning for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting and action plans, given that women of colour face even higher discrimination.
Here are the jobs with the biggest and smallest gender pay gaps, as reported by the Office for National Statistics:
Top 10 UK jobs with the biggest gender pay gap in 2022
- Waste disposal and environmental services managers (34 per cent)
- Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians (30 per cent)
- Other educational professionals – (30 per cent)
- Business associate professionals – (28 per cent)
- Financial managers and directors (28 per cent)
- Healthcare practice managers (27 per cent)
- Newspaper and periodical editors (26 per cent)
- Electrical service and maintenance mechanics and repairers (26 per cent)
- Water and sewerage plant operatives (25 per cent)
- Education managers (24 per cent)
Top 10 UK jobs where women are paid more than men in 2022
Here are the professions where women are actually paid more than men; roles that have a minus gender pay gap. Good news for the women who want to be secretaries, not so great news for those who want to be directors, managers or editors:
- Dancers and choreographers (-35 per cent)
- Special needs education teaching professionals (-23 per cent)
- Welfare professionals (-16 per cent)
- Information technology trainers (-15 per cent)
- Medical secretaries (-15 per cent)
- Personal assistants and other secretaries (-12 per cent)
- Chartered surveyors (-12 per cent)
- Energy plant operatives (-12 per cent)
- Generalist medical practitioners (-11 per cent)
- Legal secretaries (-10 per cent)
The gender pay gap is reportedly calculated by the ONS as “the difference between average hourly earnings (excluding overtime) of men and women as a proportion of men’s average hourly earnings (excluding overtime). It is a measure across all jobs in the UK, not of the difference in pay between men and women for doing the same job.”
Source: Big Issue
(Links and quotes via original reporting)
