{"id":383,"date":"2023-05-25T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equality.eis.org.uk\/fairwork\/?p=383"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:33:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:33:44","slug":"the-gender-pay-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equality.eis.org.uk\/fairwork\/2023\/05\/25\/the-gender-pay-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"2. The gender pay gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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2. The gender pay gap<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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What Causes the Gender Pay Gap <\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Learning points:<\/strong><\/p>

  1. The workforce in professions societally associated with women\u2019s work, have a majority of women.<\/li>
  2. Jobs associated with women\u2019s \u2018traditional\u2019 role and unpaid work in the home, like cleaners, childcare and social care are all paid much less than jobs where men are in the majority, like finance or tech. This differential valuing of work shows how society devalues work associated with women.<\/li>
  3. Women tend to bear the brunt of the cost of childcare. The high cost means there is often no financial incentive for women to go back to work after having children, because in some cases it would lose them money. Taking time out to be give birth and care for a baby, results in a loss in take-home pay as maternity leave does not correspond to full salary. For the birthing parent, usually a woman, becoming a parent therefore means a loss in earnings, but for the other parent, usually a man, the financial difference is minimal.<\/li><\/ol>

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    Reflective question: Can you think of three graduate professions that you would associate with a majority of women, and three that you would associate with men? What do you think they are paid?<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    The pay gap, on average, is over 10%<\/strong> in Scotland. This is because, when it comes to full-time work, the pay gap is 6.6%, but part-time working women earn 26.9% less than men working full time.<\/p>

    Though part-time working is usually presented, and thought of, as a choice, it is often the only realistic option for women, who bear the brunt of caring and domestic work and who are the vast majority of single parent households.<\/p>

    Pre-pandemic, across Europe, women worked 13 more hours a week unpaid and 7 hours less a week paid work, compared to men.\u00a0 In 2021, the EIS issued our One Thousand Women\u2019s Voices report found that 20% of respondents had main or sole responsibility for childcare and 58.5%<\/strong> had seen adverse impacts on their ability to carry out employment.<\/p>

    75%<\/strong> of part-time workers in Scotland are women, and the gender pay gap for women over 40 is higher than the national average reflecting the so-called \u2018motherhood penalty\u2019 \u2013 poor provisions for maternity paid leave keeps women at a disadvantage \u2013 as becoming a parent does not carry the same economic consequences for the parent who isn\u2019t pregnant \u2013 who is usually a man.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    How can the gender pay gap be eliminated? <\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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