Gender pay gap 'must be tackled'

Published on 25 Aug 2010 under category: legal

Wage rates have to be equalised between men and women soon, the Women's Resource Centre (WRC) has said.
The organisation said that it is "unacceptable" that men and women should be paid differently.
The comments come after new research suggested it could take as long as 57 years for the gender pay gap to close.
According to the Chartered Management Institute figures, the average salary for a male manager is more than £10,000 higher than that of their female counterparts and remuneration for senior-level men outstrips that of women by as much as 24 per cent.
"Women and girls today should not have to face an uphill slog just to earn the same amount of pay as their male colleagues," a spokeswoman for the WRC said.
"Evidence has consistently shown that where women are paid equally and treated equally at work companies perform better and workplaces are more family friendly."

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