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Pay Gap Case Study #7 – Does the Department for Work & Pensions have a Gender Pay Gap?

March 5, 2023 By Nigel

The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) says for every £1 paid to the median man in March 2022, the median woman was also paid £1.  In other words, their 2022 median gender pay gap using hourly pay was 0%.  However, their Gender Swap Number per 1,000 employees for this date was +26 which immediately raises the question “Have the DWP made an error in their calculations like Cleveland Police did in 2017?”  This was my first reaction which seems remarkable for an employer with 91,006 full pay relevant employees on a public sector pay scale and the largest pool of statisticians of any government department.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: Checking for errors, Creative Pay Gapping, DWP, Gender Pay Gap, Median, Narrative, Representation Gap, Swap Number

Pay Gaps #28 – Does the NHS Harm Gender Equality?

February 17, 2023 By Nigel

“We’re committed to Gender Equality!”

As we approach International Women’s Day next month, expect to see more and more employers saying something like this in their PR.  It’s an easy statement to make but what does Gender Equality mean to them and you?  To encourage employers to be clearer on what this means for them, I want to explore 6 possible definitions.  Along the way, I show some definitions of gender equality are out of reach unless half a million women working for the NHS are replaced by men.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: Disparity, Employment Gap, gender dominance, gender equality, Gender Parity, Gender Pay Gap, Pay Gaps, Representation Gap, Swap Number

Pay Gaps #23A – How long will it take to close your pay gap?

August 9, 2021 By Nigel

Five months ago, I introduced the gender swap number as a superior statistic to the median gender pay gap.  Feedback from clients and others since then has confirmed my hope they would find it more intuitive to use and interpret.  This encouraged me to call on Parliament to amend the UK gender pay gap legislation so that swap numbers could be published for employers with 250 or more employees.  I now want to build on this by showing a couple of simple calculations that can turn a swap number into an estimate of how long it will take an employer to close its pay gap.

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Filed Under: Diversity Tagged With: Closing Gaps, Pay Fingerprint, Pay Gaps, Swap Number

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