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Pay Gaps #13 – How could Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting be introduced in the UK?

February 11, 2020 By Nigel

On 5th February 2020, Baroness Prosser laid a bill in the House of Lords which calls for the introduction of ethnicity pay gap reporting in addition to a number of other initiatives.  Last year I explained why ethnicity pay gap reporting cannot follow the same process as gender pay gap reporting so now is the time to explore how ethnicity pay gap reporting could be carried out.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: classification, Closing Gaps, Data journalism, data quality, Ethnicity Pay Gap, Gender Pay Gap, SIC, Statistician

Pay Gaps #12 – Unequal Pay & Gender Pay Gaps are not the same thing!

November 8, 2019 By Nigel

The 14th November 2019 is being incorrectly marked as Equal Pay Day in the UK by the Fawcett Society.  By having a campaign name that conflates equal pay issues with the gender pay gap, the Fawcett Society runs the risk of misleading men and women in the UK in their understanding of what these two concepts mean.

If you care about statistics being used correctly then please lobby the Fawcett Society to rename this as Gender Pay Gap day instead.

If you care about issues to do with Equal Pay, then please support the #MeTooPay campaign instead.  This is a new campaign, led by Dame Moya Greene, who are explicit about the distinction and are saying, quite rightly, that with the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act taking place next year, cases of unequal pay should not be happening in this day and age.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: Equal Pay, Equal Pay Day, Fawcett Society, Gender Pay Gap, Median, Unequal Pay

Pay Gaps #11 – A median sized problem with 10 solutions from the RSS

August 7, 2019 By Nigel

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and I have published two articles to help employers better calculate and interpret their gender pay gaps.  The first article lists 10 recommendations to improve the quality of gender pay gap reporting, the second is an article in Significance magazine which explores in more detail, two of the recommendations concerning medians and quartiles.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: data quality, Gender Pay Gap, Median, Quartiles, Royal Statistical Society, Significance

Pay Gaps #10 – Should the UK introduce Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting?

July 18, 2019 By Nigel

After two years of mandatory gender pay gap reporting, there is increasing pressure to bring in pay gap reporting for other protected characteristics.  At the moment, ethnicity is receiving the greatest attention and a number of politicians are calling for the introduction of mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting.

In this post, I will explain why I am opposed to an ethnicity pay gap reporting process which simply replicates the gender pay gap reporting process.  In a future post, I will explore what an ethnicity pay gap reporting process should look like if parliament decides it wants to make this law.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: data quality, Ethnicity Pay Gap, Gender Pay Gap, Statistician

Pay Gaps #9 – How to close your gender pay gap with DMAIC

July 5, 2019 By Nigel

So you’ve measured your gender pay gap (correctly I hope!) but you don’t know what to do next?

You are not alone, many employers are still getting their heads around how to interpret their pay gaps and are struggling to work out what it means for them.  One outcome is that many consultants are out there waiting to advise you and among them are statisticians like me.  But what exactly is it that statisticians bring to the party compared to other consultants?  One answer is that statisticians use DMAIC to help organisations improve the quality of their products, services and processes.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: DMAIC, Gender Pay Gap, QIS, Quality Improvement, Royal Statistical Society, Six Sigma, Statistician

Pay Gaps #8 – My Evidence to the Treasury Select Committee

June 8, 2019 By Nigel

On June 5th 2019, I had the privilege of being able to talk to the Treasury Select Committee about the “Effectiveness of Gender Pay Gap Reporting“.  My name was put forward by the Royal Statistical Society and we spent an hour discussing a number of issues with a particular focus on the Finance sector.

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Filed Under: Diversity, Featured blog Tagged With: Evidence, Gender Pay Gap, Parliament, Statistical Training

Pay Gap Case Study #2 – Year on year trends, the good, bad and Unilever

April 24, 2019 By Nigel

Welcome to my next case study where I look at the pay gap figures of Unilever Ltd.  Unilever turn out to be a very interesting case study for analysing year on year changes in their published statistics.  In this case I will be looking at the changes between 2017 and 2018 for the two Unilever business units that have submitted GPG data which are:-

  1. Unilever UK Ltd
  2. Unilever UK Central Resources Ltd

Clicking on those links will take you to the government’s gender pay gap website where you can see their published figures.  For this post, I will be using my own spreadsheet which you can download for yourselves here.

 

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: detecting unusual data, Gender Pay Gap, Presenting data, trend analysis

Pay Gap Trends #1 – Did the gender pay gap close in 2018?

April 10, 2019 By Nigel

With the publication of the 2018 gender pay gap data, many people want to know if the UK has made progress on closing its gender pay gap.  The short answer is there was no change in 2018 from 2017.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: Data journalism, Gender Pay Gap, Presenting data, trend analysis

Pay Gaps #6 – Frequently Asked Questions

April 7, 2019 By Nigel

April 2019 is bang in the middle of gender pay gap season as everyone digests the 2018 snapshot data uploaded by over 10,500 organisations in the UK employing more than 250 employees.  Due to my work on pay gaps, I am being asked a number of questions and what is gender pay gap data and how it can be interpreted.  As more questions come in, I will update this post so please bookmark this for future reference and follow me on Twitter for alerts as to when this has happened.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: Gender Pay Gap, Presenting data

Pay Gap Data #2 – Where can I find gender pay gap data for 2018?

April 7, 2019 By Nigel

This post is out of date.  Please click here for a later version.

The government requires all organisations employing 250 or more employees to submit gender pay gap data.  The latest set of submissions are supposed to be uploaded by 31st March 2019 but these figures refer to pay made in April 2018 i.e. a year ago.  From the end of April 2019, organisations can submit their 2019 data and not wait for the deadline of March 2020.  All data is available to the public and can be found on the government’s gender pay gap website.  I have downloaded this data and created a spreadsheet tool to present the data in a more user-friendly and visual format.

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Filed Under: Archive Tagged With: 2018, Gender Pay Gap, Presenting data

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