BBC news today - Pay gap still going strong

[Trekkie]

here

Really depressing, but not surprising, news.

I found this comment in the article odd:

""Since it would be unlawful for employers to pay males and females doing the same job differently, something else must be happening to female graduate earnings."

I don't really understand why she assumes that employers are not acting unlawfully, that seems a bit of a leap!

I thought the previous govts idea of getting larger employers to publish banded data was a really good one - that would have had a big impact.

The company I used to work for discriminated by 'performance related pay' - pay rises were totally discretionary.

I was in HR and had a (massive) spreadsheet of all employees/pay. If you sorted them by salary, high to low, the spreadsheet naturally also sorted into males and females. Funny that.

That particular HR boss was an old dinosaur who seemed to genuinely believe that men did a better job than women. He also once told me that men deserved to be paid more because they were the breadwinners and they had families to look after.

This was 12 years ago.

Doesn't surprise me.

Private sector no-one knows what anyone else earns, generally.

I happened to find out in a previous job that I was being paid less than the men on my team. I raised it and was told that discussing salary was a sackable offence and to watch myself.