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Pay Gaps #14 – Gender Pay Fingerprints are better than Gender Pay Gaps

February 19, 2020 By Nigel

Recently, a lot of people have been making incorrect claims about what a gender pay gap tells you.  I have been pointing out these errors but in doing so, I am conscious I come across as a pedant or a negative voice.  The problem is that the official gender pay gap measure (the difference between the median man and the median woman) is just a single number and that single number does not capture the full nuance of what is going on.  I have decided it is time to introduce the Gender Pay Fingerprint to the world as an alternative and going forward, I will be encouraging people to use this instead.

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