The website launched before Equal Pay Day 2022, calculated by the Fawcett Society charity to fall on 20 November 2022. It marks the day in the year when based on average pay, women effectively stop being paid compared to men because of the gender pay gap. The gender pay gap is the difference between the average pay of men and women within a particular group or population.
The gender pay gap based on the average full-time salary is 11.3%. The gap is wider for those who work part-time, and maybe even worse for women of colour, disabled women, and those who experience other intersectional inequalities.
The website was developed as part of the Equality trust’s #EqualPay50 campaign, recognising that more than 50 years after the Equal Pay Act 1970 there are still nearly 30,000 equal pay claims a year. This demonstrates that there is a real need for workers to have the tools that they need to uncover and challenge possible pay discrimination.
Speaking about the campaign and promoting a toolkit that helps raise awareness of the issue, Jo Wittams, Co-Executive Director of The Equality Trust said, “Pay discrimination is a key driver of the gender pay gap and income inequality as a whole. Our ambition is that this toolkit will become a key method of dismantling structural pay inequalities within workplaces. For too long the onus has been on the individual to prove pay discrimination and this website enables collaborative working to hold employers to account and resolve issues over unequal pay.”
Ayah Abbas, President of the PDA NAWP Network added, “The National Association of Women Pharmacists (NAWP) is delighted with the development of the Equal Pay Toolkit and the new website. We are proud that PDA has been involved in its creation. This is another example of the practical work that the PDA and its four EDI Networks undertake to fight inequality not just in pharmacy, but across our society. Living in an equal world should be simple and the foundation to our lives.”
The toolkit was funded by Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
Learn more
- The Fawcett Society
- Achieving Equal Pay in your Workplace website
- #EqualPay50
- Equal Pay Act 1970
- The PDA NAWP Network
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
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