How do we achieve equal representation in the Workplace? 4th April 2018 Presentation 3 - Gender Pay Gap - featuring TES story 22/3/2018

1. How do we achieve equal
representation in the
Workplace?
First Gender Pay Gap Data
Paints Universities in Poor Light
(TES, 19/3/2018)
Jane Whild, 4th April 201

2. Gender Pay Gap Reporting – What is it?
From 6 April 2017 employers in Great Britain with more than 250 staff
will be required by law to publish the following four types of figures
annually on their own website and on a government website:
• Gender pay gap (mean and median averages)
• Gender bonus gap (mean and median averages)
• Proportion of men and women receiving bonuses
• Proportion of men and women in each quartile of the organisation’s
pay structure
• The deadline to report is 4 April 2018 (or 30 March 2018 for public
sector employers).

3. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/first-gender-
pay-gap-data-paints-uk-universities-poor-light

4. First Gender Pay Gap DataPaints Universities in
Poor Light(TES, (TES, 19/3/2018)
‘So far, about one-third of British
higher education institutions
(46) have submitted their gender
pay gap data’

5. ‘The vast majority revealed a
gender pay gap in double figures,
with the average standing at 13.9
per cent.’
First Gender Pay Gap DataPaints Universities in
Poor Light (TES, 19/3/2018)

6. ‘even in institutions where as many women as men are
employed in top positions, a pay gap is still evident.
At Oxford Brookes University, for example, more
women than men are employed on every level, with
just over half of the most senior positions held by
women (51.3 per cent), but the institution still admits
to a mean pay disparity of 11.9 per cent.’
First Gender Pay Gap DataPaints Universities in
Poor Light (TES, 19/3/2018)

7. Gender pay gaps reported by UK HEI’s @ 19th March 2018

8. Gender pay gaps reported by UK HEI’s @ 19th March 2018

9. Gender pay gaps reported by UK HEI’s @ 19th March 2018

10. Conclusion
Despite the successes of Athena Swan Charter
since 2005, there is still a way to go!

11. ‘Andrew Bazeley, policy and insight
manager at gender equality charity
the Fawcett Society, said that seeing
the gap in individual institutions
would “galvanise the women who
work there to demand change” ’
First Gender Pay Gap DataPaints Universities in Poor
Light (TES, 22/3/2018)

12. How do we Mind the Gap?
Action…
• Search the Gender Pay Gap Data - https://gender-pay-
gap.service.gov.uk/
• Write to your MP and employer
• ask how they intend to close the gap
• share their responses on social media to
• Feedback to the Govt any weaknesses we identify in the data
• Watch for companies who are using loopholes to avoid reporting their
pay gap
• Call for the legislation to include companies with less 250 employees

13. Get more active…
• Join the Women’s Equality Party
• to bring more women into grassroots politics and stand for office, to press for policy and
legislative change.
• Join the Fawcett Society
• to support their research and campaign to press employers and government to take action.
• Watch their video
http://www.genderpay.co.uk/wp-downloads/regulation-march-
2017/Gender_Pay_Regulation_2017_Sam_Smethers_Slides.pdf
• Attend this event: GENDER PAY GAP - MOVING FORWARD, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 09:30, -
16.30, London (or register to attend online)
https://www.regonline.co.uk/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=2260065
• #PayMeToo take the Gender Pay Gap survey
• https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ZTW76KC
• Subscribe to news from the Parliamentary Select Committees e.g.
• https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/women-
and-equalities-committee/inquiries/

14. WHAT NEXT?
Follow Women’s Equality Party Milton Keynes on Facebook for:
• Links to tonight’s slides and videos
• Links to relevant sites:
• MK Council Pay Policy Statement
• Women and Equalities Parliamentary Committee
• ACAS website and guidance
• Equalities Charter Unit wesite and reports
• Stories from the media
THANK YOU FOR COMING!