Top level gender pay gap hits 55%

“Equal pay day” falls five days later this year than in 2014, as the gender pay gap has closed slightly, but women working full-time still earn 37% less than their male counterparts.

Their poll of more than 1,000 people showed female apprentices earn on average, £4.82 an hour, compared with £5.85 an hour for male apprentices.

Yet more importantly, today’s date comes shortly after the government announced more practical measures to squeeze the pay gap between men and women.

A day where true gender quality was achieved throughout United Kingdom society was hard to imagine, she said – but if we took the right steps there was “every possibility of pay equality”.

New York is more progressive on the issue of gender equity than many other states, Neufeld said, noting that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a large package of legislation last month that strengthens equal pay for equal work requirements, requires reasonable accommodations for pregnant women, prohibits employers from not allowing employees to discuss their salaries and helps protect employees in small businesses from sexual harassment.

Ask your boss if they know about the new regulations (which are due to come into force next year), requiring organisations with over 250 employees to publish their gender pay gap figure. Unfortunately, despite all this agreement, women are still paid far less than men.

Given that women are notoriously bad at asking for pay rises, it wouldn’t be surprising to see that pattern repeated across job levels and professions. In fact, many companies seem to prefer to keep workers in the dark about how their pay stacks up.

“If you say, I’m for equal pay, that’s a reform”.

November 10 is Equal Pay Day, and Green Party MP’s will be joining the “We’re relying on you” campaign picnic run by unions at 1pm on Parliament lawns.

In Canada, women still earn, on average, about a third less than men, according to the most recent Statistics Canada figures available, which include full- and part-time workers.

“The message to women and men at work is – it’s OK to talk about pay”.

“The Young Women’s Trust would have big concerns that we don’t get too complacent”.

At the time, secretary of state for education, who doubles as minister for women and equalities, Nicky Morgan, wrote in a blog for The Huffington Post United Kingdom that the gender pay gap was “lower than ever” and hailed her government’s “great strides” towards that feat.

The Apprentice Charter. With a 22 per cent gender pay gap in the apprenticeship sector, we need to ensure that apprenticeship opportunities are high quality and accessible to everyone.