Gender Pay Gap Bot on Twitter

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twitter.com/PayGapApp?s=20&t=5AsxQ_pBwUgE-7rufvXfEg

Absolutely fantastic work, hats off to whoever pulled this together. Many companies being outed for just using IWD as a cynical marketing ploy.

So many tweets deleted after the Bot publicises the pay gap.

TUI - cannot believe this one. 41.7% lower than men's.

After scrolling through dozens of pay gap stats in favour of men across all sorts of industries, I got excited to see one 10% in favour of women - then realised it was for a hospice, so falling neatly into the women-as-cater spot.

(Waits for some bright spark to rock up and announce that women earn more than men in porn. )

I had a venture into the gender pension gap hashtag.. immediately regretted it. It's just full of accounts kindly mansplaining that our pensions are less because it's our fault. We simply need to earn more and stop choosing to have time out of work to have and raise children.

Who knew the solution was that simple eh?

Pay Gap Bot is doing a brilliant job my particular favourite was the Innovation Uk one at 30+ % lauding themselves how wonderful they areZ
Awaiting to see if my organisation gets picked up!

Would so love to post that twitter link on LinkedIn. Prob lose my job though.

Lot's of colleges and universities!! Doesn't surprise me one bit......

Could do with it on linked in! I’m not brave enough

Oh that's brilliant.

It gets better, I present you a thread detailing organisations that deleted their tweets after being exposed. Some even went so far as reposting without the hashtag to avoid the bot

twitter.com/oldenoughtosay/status/1501161363263078401?s=20&t=mRpCmZjsvl-0cCzp4LEaBA

Some companies are now deleting their tweets or reposting without the hashtag so they bot doesn't pick their tweet up...

twitter.com/oldenoughtosay/status/1501161363263078401?t=a7BQ69mntBqdy5Fvrb6NTg&s=19

He he he

JFC someone on Linkedin has used IWD 2022 to say thank you to the men.

Excellent, excellent work by that Twitter account. So simple yet so effective.

I've scrolled through most of that long list and have seen 1 organisation which pays their employees equally. Just one.

This is so good -- I was about to start a thread on it but then saw I'd been beaten to it.
The Twitter thread is a really great read. The hypocrisy of these organisations is right out in the open for everyone to see.

I'm not Twitter savvy - is there a way to search if my company has been highlighted?

@SingingSands

I'm not Twitter savvy - is there a way to search if my company has been highlighted?

Simplest way would be to see if your company have tweeted using the IWD hashing, and then check if that tweet has been quote-RTed by the paygapapp account.

[quote bonfireheart]Some companies are now deleting their tweets or reposting without the hashtag so they bot doesn't pick their tweet up...

twitter.com/oldenoughtosay/status/1501161363263078401?t=a7BQ69mntBqdy5Fvrb6NTg&s=19[/quote]
That's just sneaky.

Bet none of them actually take it on board and take steps to put it right, easier to brush it under the carpet

Thanks @MedusasBadHairDay

They have tweeted with a slightly different hashtag and used #IWD22 instead. Sneaky.

How are these being calculated - just out of interest?
Are they comparing like for like jobs roles within a company?

@Felix125

How are these being calculated - just out of interest? Are they comparing like for like jobs roles within a company?

It says in their tweets, it's the median hourly wage across the whole company.

It's not comparing like for like roles, but will show up companies who hire women in low paid roles whilst the men get the top paid roles.

For anyone who wants to check out their own employer etc -
'Search and compare gender pay gap data - GOV.UK - GOV.UK'
gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk

My own employer came out as 3.3% difference which was definitely lower than I was expecting.

My employer has posted on LinkedIn and Instagram, but not Twitter. They posted very late in the day so I suspect they're aware of this bot and decided against Twitter given that the pay gap is listed as 34% (thanks @waitwhat23 for the link!)

Brilliant idea.

I think the most interesting comparisons are between similar organisations - like one FE college with double the pay gap of another.

Ryanair is absolutely shocking -

gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Employer/rrAcOspy/2020