The industrial gender pay gap

Posted on 14 Apr 2016 by Victoria Fitzgerald

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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