Manufacturers are likely to be concerned that the gender pay gap in their industry is larger than others because of the gender imbalance that exists in the sector as a whole.
The difference for full- and part-time workers means a woman earns typically 80p to every £1 earned by her male counterpart (image courtesy of DFC). The disparity between men’s and women’s pay currently stands at 19.2%, a figure that has barely moved in four years, irrespective of a government pledge to…
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