{"id":54157,"date":"2019-04-15T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=54157"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:53:03","slug":"gender-pay-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/gender-pay-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Pay Gap | What is it and How Can We Fix It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While images of smart,\nsuccessful women working alongside men are found in abundance, the truth of the\nworkplace and the remuneration lie in conflict with it. In the reports on <strong>Gender pay gap <\/strong>thousands of companies\nfile their gender pay gap figures, revealing that on average men are paid more\nthan women. There are various factors that lead to this gap, but let\u2019s first\nlook at what it exactly is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>WHAT IS GENDER PAY GAP?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender pay gap ( or wage gap)\nis the average difference between the earnings of a company\u2019s male and female\nemployees. For instance, a company having a 5% wage gap means that the female\nemployees earn an average of 5% less per hour than men, or in simpler words,\nthe average female employee would make 95 cents to every 1 dollar made by a\nman. There are two different categories in which this gap is calculated, first\nbeing the <strong>uncontrolled gender pay gap <\/strong>which\ntakes the ratio of median earnings of all women to all men and the <strong>controlled gender pay gap <\/strong>which takes\ninto account a number of factors like job titles, experience, qualification,\nhours worked and industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Payscale, in 2019\nwomen earned 79 cents for every dollar earned by men. This figure is\nrepresentative of the uncontrolled gender pay gap and presents a 1% improvement\nfrom 2018 and a 5% improvement from 2015. To zoom in on the disparity, when all\nfactors such as position, education level and experience are accounted for, the\ngap is still not negligent. A woman with the same qualifications and\ncharacteristics of employment still earns 98 cents for every dollar by a man.\nSo there still exists a gap of 2% in the wages. The question that can be and\nshould be raised here is why the gap and what are the reasons behind these\ndifferences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Factors contributing to gender pay gap:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discrimination <\/strong>is the\nmost obvious reason to the question of why the gender pay gap exists, but the\nproblem persists on a more complicated scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Different Industries.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the research done on\nwage gap across various industries shows that <strong>women are paid less in almost all the industries. <\/strong>And while one\nmight expect that in a field dominated by women the figures would be different,\nresearch proves otherwise.Payscale\ngives the example of the legal industry, where although women make up for 52%\nof the workforce, they still face the largest uncontrolled gap of all\noccupations covered in their report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2019 research report,\nGlassdoor found out that in the US, the controlled gender pay gap is largest in\nmedia, retail and construction, repair and maintenance industries and is\nsmallest in biotech &amp; pharmaceuticals, education, and aerospace and defense\nindustries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Job titles and opportunities.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, most of the jobs\nthat pay the highest also have the largest gender pay gap and the jobs paying\nless have comparatively smaller pay gaps. The difference also comes from the\nfact that the representation of women in the higher paying jobs is significantly\nlower to that of men. So women are less likely to hold higher positions, this\nis also termed as <strong>opportunity gap.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Women move up the career ladder at a slower\npace. So <strong>the pay gap grows with age<\/strong>\nas women become stagnant in their professions. There are multiple reasons\nbehind this, one being the assumptions of employers towards the kind of work\nthe genders are suited for. Another important factor to this is that women\nspend more time out of the workforce since their time also includes the\nunaccounted work of taking care of the household and motherhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Occupational and Industry segregation. <\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest cause of the\ngender pay gap is the differences in the professions taken up by men and women.<strong> Women generally tend to pick occupations\nthat pay less<\/strong>, they tend to be overrepresented in fields like Education,\nHealthcare, Community and Social services (typically lower paying jobs) while\nmen dominate fields like engineering and computer science (comparatively higher\npaying jobs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019 report by Glassdoor\nsays that in the US occupational and industry segregation explains about 56.5\npercent of the overall wage gap which is by far the largest factor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Race and Ethnicity.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wage gap among different ethnic\nand racial groups have significant variations, the largest gap is seen in the\npay of black women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equal pay day, started by the\nNational Committee on Pay Equity, is celebrated as symbolic of how far into the\nyear women must work in order to earn what men earned by the end of the\nprevious year. The dates change every year, 2019 celebrated this day on April\n2. The dates to recognize the work&nbsp; by\nwomen of color changes accordingly;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">&nbsp;Asian-American women &#8211; 5th March, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">African American women &#8211; 22nd\nAugust, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equal pay day is then an apt\nrepresentation of the variations of wage gap based on the racial and ethnical\nbias. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>GENDER PAY GAP FINDINGS ACROSS\nDIFFERENT COUNTRIES. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The gender pay gap exists around the world, in the study\ndone by Glassdoor it was found that Germany has the largest gender pay gap with\n22.3% (78 cents for every dollar earned by a man) and France has the smallest\ngender pay gap with 11.6% (88 cents for every dollar earned by a man). The\npattern found among the eight countries that were studied for the report shows\nthat the pay gap shrinks when calculated as controlled or adjusted, that is,\nwhen all the factors of qualifications and experience is taken into account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of countries that have yet to tackle or\neven address this issue. The concern raised by the data and statistics of the\npay gap available for the few countries only makes us wonder at what the\nsituation is in countries that don&#8217;t have proper laws related to this matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>HOW TO HELP CLOSE GENDER\nPAY GAP. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the wage gap exists\npersistently, the efforts by organizations and government around the world have\ntried to close this gap and it has worked in a slow but gradual change and\nimprovement. The issue can be tackled on both a broader organizational level\nand individual levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Measures taken on the level of the organization:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Transparency<\/strong>, being\ntransparent about your wage system and the payment of your employees goes a\nlong way to help bring the awareness of the differences and provides a equal\nplatform for women to raise concern. Most organization hesitate from adopting\nthis policy in fear of the disappointment of the workers, this can be avoided\nby taking an objective estimation of the worth of a job position and deciding\non a fixed, equal salary for a specific job title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Equal distribution of employees, <\/strong>a workplace balancing the number of male and female\nemployees has proved to be a better environment for equal pay opportunities. It\nalso creates a positive atmosphere for a conversation on these issues. Data\nshows that an equal representation of women on the top paid jobs shrinks the\npay gap of the company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Measures taken on an individual level:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Know your worth and how much you deserve for the work you\ndeliver.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When applying for the same job\nwith the same qualifications men and women both have almost the same\nexpectations of the salary, so there\u2019s no noticeable \u2018salary confidence gap\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when working at the same\nlevel, women need to know the compensation and raise concern if it is at\ndifferences with that of the male employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Be confident in your approach and persistent about the end result. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do your research and approach the issue of a raise, a promotion or a question on the disparity of the salary with confidence. Know the counters to any possible arguments, find out the value of your work and stick to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion to all the findings, the truth of the renumeration gap (even though promising in the statistics of past years)&nbsp; encourages us to work more to eradicate it, and to work as a team of government, workforces and individuals. The present figures are not negligible and can be improved with constant effort. With the data on paper we must also remember that it also has to be put into action in how fairly women are treated in the workplace and how secure they are made to feel in this environment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTRODUCTION While images of smart, successful women working alongside men are found in abundance, the truth of the workplace and the remuneration lie in conflict with it. 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