Tara Woodyer kindly pointed out that the Universities and Colleges Employers Association released a large variety of infographics pertaining to employment in the Higher Education sector earlier this week. This included information about pensions, how higher education organisations are investing in their staff, and the gender pay gap. They also addressed some key questions about different contract types in HE.
The information on gender pay gap showed some improvment with the actual gap decreasing to around 5-6% for both academics and support staff. Desptie this, some trends including the lower proportion of women employed in higher grade academic roles, are still an ongoing issue.
Gender pay gaps are likely to be hitting the headlines over the coming year, as from today, UK companies with over 250 employees will be legally required to collect information regarding pay differences associated with gender. In addition, this information must be published before April next year. As reported in the guardian, this could potentially have a greater impact on closing the gender pay gap than any legislation in the last four decades. Whilst this may be an overly ambitious claim, surely any additional material that demonstrates the insidious nature of the problem, must be a good thing....
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