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This is still an incorrect approach looking at incorrect metrics. According to the government document: >The gender pay gap is the difference between the avera
by nukeop 9y ago
This is still an incorrect approach looking at incorrect metrics. According to the government document:
>The gender pay gap is the difference between the average earnings of men and women, expressed relative to men’s earnings. For example, ‘women earn 15% less than men per hour’.
But this is not what should be measured. If there's a mining company that employs 90% men working down in the mine and 10% women doing accountancy, then of course the average wages of men are going to be different than those of women, but that tells us nothing about equal and fair treatment of men and women at this company.
- jlebrech 9y agolet's take the average wage of 100 women working in the care industry and compare them to 100 men working on oil rigs. Lies and statistics.
- lucozade 9y ago> But this is not what should be measured It's a perfectly reasonable thing to measure as long as it's not being used as a proxy for equal pay (which it explicitly isn't in this case). What it can show is systemic bias. Now, unlike unequal pay, it's not necessarily blatantly unfair bias. It might not be unfair at all depending on the detail. But knowing that there's a gap and understanding the reasons for the gap can be beneficial.
- sp332 9y agoOf course it does tell us that (or at least give us an indication). We see that they don't believe that men and women deserve equal pay for their work.