Oct
30
Equal pay
Today (Oct 30th) is "Women's No Pay Day", basically the 17% average pay gap between men and women is equivalent to women working for free from now until 2008. The Fawcett Society are campaigning for every UK company to have to do an equal pay audit.
I'm very pro that, but then my company sells pay auditing software. It's not simple though: EU law is that work has to be of "equal value". How do you determine what that is?
Job evaluation is a good place to start, but not all JE systems are equal. For instance the Hay system is a well established and widely accepted JE system, but it could be said to be gender biased: "The Hay system consistently values male-dominated management functions over non-management functions more likely to be performed by women."
(Steinburg, R. J. (1992).
I'm very pro that, but then my company sells pay auditing software. It's not simple though: EU law is that work has to be of "equal value". How do you determine what that is?
Job evaluation is a good place to start, but not all JE systems are equal. For instance the Hay system is a well established and widely accepted JE system, but it could be said to be gender biased: "The Hay system consistently values male-dominated management functions over non-management functions more likely to be performed by women."
(Steinburg, R. J. (1992).
