The finance sector is sexist!!!! Attention

The wage gap has already been debunked.
You get paid depending on how much money you make the money.
btw
did you just google search it and select ones that prove ur point?? biaseD?

Think about it logically.

Imagine you had to employ someone. You have a £50,000 budget. That money not used on a persons salary, you get as profit.

Would you a) Employ a male at £50,000 p/a or b) Employ a female (with the EXACT SAME credentials for the sake of the argument) at less than £40,000 p/a?

Exactly. The theory and calculations that imply a wage gap ignore the current things:
1) The amount of hours worked (yes, it just takes an annual figure. Ignores hours worked completely)
2) Holidays taken (similar to hours worked, but this also considers maternity leave which is much larger for females)
3) Qualifications (If two people have applied for the same job, it ignores how qualified they are, just how much they're paid. Which is evidently a factor in considering wages)
4) It's an average of ALL JOBS. And if you think that there isn't a disparity between the jobs that men and women do then you cannot be helped.

It's just a total salary of all women/men, divided by how many women/men are in work. It ignores so much that it's actually less accurate than saying all women are murderers because the vast majority of children murders in first world countries are done by women.

That's not really how it works dude.

It:s about negotiation power, not about saving money.

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The things you listed are applicable to men too,period.

How is the company being "forced" to employ women? The company wants to employ the best people available. If the best people are not getting through due to discrimination then surely having a path that is free of aforementioned discrimination is a sound way of addressing the issue?

You can look at it in several different ways.

The ideal of course is that no discrimination would happen in the first place, but that isn't where we are, so we have things like this.

As I said before, it's not like they recruit the majority of their workforce this way, so it really should make little to no difference to you as a man.

Srs?

Can you not step back for a momento and think about maybe just a 'few' reasons why?

Especially in client facing organisations..

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There definitely is. My point was that the "trusted person" could be ill informed on both those counts. Doesn't stop them from saying it, nor the person it is directed to taking it to heart.

Exactly. Men work more hours than women, so obviously women are paid less.

More women are in part time jobs, so obviously they're paid less.

All of these contribute to the average being unequal, despite the fact that it represents nothing to do with individual pay.

Maybe in organisations where cultural sensitivity and experience was very important, but in those cases the persons background will directly affect their job performance so its still down to suitability for the job. I'm talking about situations where a persons gender/race/orientation would have no specific advantages. Eg. If a software engineering company has a majority of male workers and they are looking to employ someone, should they hire a woman even if she was less qualified, just to make a diversity quota?

I still disagree.

Why are we encouraging people to work in a different field? Why cannot people just work in this field they want to?

I remember going to my sixth form open day, and we were faced with 2 huge posters, saying (and I quote as I have a pic of it xD)
1) "Are you female? You may wish to consider these subjects: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computing, Biology, Further Maths"
2) "Are you male? You may wish to consider these subjects: Art, Sociology, Media Studies, Fashion Textiles, English, History, Classics"

Why is there a campaign? That is clearly not the common interest. There was constantly teachers from the girl-dominated classes coming over to us guys and offering their course.

Sorry but we should not be forcing people to study somewhere, it should be equal opportunity for all. Simple as.

If the wage gap is not an issue, why is there significant pressure from the government for individual companies to disclose salaries that would allow direct comparisons?

Thanks for being understand! , yep. I'm up for encouragement, just not gender quota that is demanded xD

Exactly. Men work more hours than women, so obviously women are paid less.

More women are in part time jobs, so obviously they're paid less.

All of these contribute to the average being unequal, despite the fact that it represents nothing to do with individual pay.

=__= How did you come to a new conclusion men work longer hours than women?? and More women in part time job? you sure?

Companies are getting gender quotes to hire more females. just like Norway has a 40% female quota on selected companies.

"If the best people are not getting through due to discrimination then surely having a path that is free of aforementioned discrimination is a sound way of addressing the issue?"

No cause it would just create a cycle of people saying their discriminated and getting hired to feel up the diversity. Okay now it might be females. But once its 50% to both genders or close. Then it will be the LGBT communities saying, there is a lack of LBGT in workplace, then the non-binary will also join in. Then the religious people would join in, probably Jews since they tend to make up the minority religion in the workplace. This will just be quota upon quota, it's like your strangling the company for Diversity

They have to if they want to fill up the diversity quota and not look like a sexist company

Okay you now have to decide if you trust those websites you just quoted me because they said these facts.

Just saying, you're completely contradicting yourself.

And yes it is a fact.

Throughout the post we are talking about working hours/job type/ability being constant, while wages a woman receives is less than that of a man receives?
Not sure how you starting to bring in part time job? comparing woman working part-time with a full-time male is ridiculous.. Did you study biology or chemistry before btw?