- Conference
- 2025 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 2 October 2024
- Decision
- Carried as Amended
Conference in the UK men earn 14% more than women, despite the introduction of the mandatory Gender Pay Gap reporting in 2017, women are still paid less on average than men.
More women than men work part-time, more women than men take on the caring responsibilities within their families. However, lack of good quality, properly paid part-time work alongside the lack of affordable childcare continues to worsen the issue for women and the continuing gender pay imbalance.
In the public sector women continue to be excluded from senior posts, with as few as one third of all management/director/senior officer posts being held by women. In contrast the vast majority (85%) of the lowest paid jobs are held by women, widening the gender pay gap.
It is important that the gender pay gap is not considered in isolation. More must be done to fully understand the impact of multiple pay gaps. Research suggests that the gender pay gaps faced by Black or disabled women are higher. This means that work to close the gender pay gap must also pay attention to the intersectional profile of the workforce which is the disability and ethnicity pay gap.
Currently Gender pay gap reporting regulations only applies to employers with 250 or more employees, unfortunately this alone will not make a difference to the gender pay gap.
Conference calls on the NWC to continue to campaign for a new legal requirement for employers to report on their action plans to reduce gender pay and ethnicity pay gap.
