Britain’s female managers work for free for nearly two hours every day, a new survey showed yesterday
When the pay of female managers is compared with that of male counterparts, women are shown to earn 22 percent less — meaning they effectively go unpaid for one hour and 40 minutes a day, the Chartered Management Institute said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron last month vowed to end the “scandal” of the gender pay gap in a generation, announcing that all British companies with more than 250 employees must publish the gap between average female and male earnings.
EQUAL PAY LAW
The gender pay gap among professionals in Britain now stands at more than ￡8,500 (US$13,400), down on last year’s figure of just more than ￡9,000, said the survey, published with salary specialist XpertHR.
“An entire generation has now worked its way through from school leaver to retirement since the first equal pay legislation came into effect in 1970, yet the gender pay gap persists,” XpertHR content director Mark Crail said.
“Many employers still prefer not to know just how bad it is in their organization rather than getting to grips with the data and doing something about it,” he said.
The survey also shows that while women make up 67 percent of the workforce in entry-level roles, only 43 percent of senior managers are women, with the figure dropping to 29 percent at director level.
Female managers are also losing out on bonuses, with the average male manager’s bonus of nearly ￡5,000 almost double that of the average woman’s bonus.
Last year, British women effectively worked for free from Nov. 5 until the end of the year, a report from campaign group the Fawcett Society in November last year concluded.
“One way forward would be to ensure that senior roles are advertised on a part-time basis or as a job-share unless there is a good business case for not doing so,” Fawcett Society chief executive Sam Smethers said, commenting on the new survey.
EU GAP
According to Eurostat, the gender pay gap in the EU ranges from less than 10 percent in Slovenia, Malta, Poland, Italy, Croatia, Luxembourg and Romania, to more than 20 percent in Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria, and almost 30 percent in Estonia.
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