Women in their late 50s currently have around 50 per cent less pension savings than men. As a result of the gender savings gap, women will experience lower standards of living in retirement than men. While some changes in working and saving behaviour are likely to reduce the gap in the future, there are poten...Read More

Women in their late 50s have around 50 per cent less pension savings than men, according to new research published today. The research, conducted by the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) and sponsored by the Defined Contribution Investment Forum (DCIF), found that as a result of this gender savings gap, women will experience lower standards of...Read More

The new gender pay reporting regulations came into force in April 2017, and require all employers with 250 or more employees to measure and report their gender pay gaps for the first time. Women currently earn around 18 per cent less on average than men, despite continued efforts to remove barriers in the workplace. Employers...Read More

The gender pay gap is the difference between a man and woman’s average weekly earnings, based on equivalent hours and job roles. In 06 April 2017, new regulations came into force which meant all employers with over 250 employees are now required to report their gender pay gap data. Under this new regulation, it was...Read More

UK’s gender gap has fallen to its lowest level ever for full time employees at 8.6 per cent, according to the ONS. Despite the slight progress, the average woman in the workplace still earns less than the average man with the gap even wider for women aged over 40 at 12.8 per cent. With this...Read More

Almost a year since companies were required to report on the gender pay gap, fifteen companies have today signed a commitment to work towards mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting and encourage other businesses to do so as well. Signatories include the Bank of England, Deloitte, KPMG, WPP, Santander, Lloyds of London, Sodexo and EY. The...Read More

Jaime Johnson is the founder and Director of leading employee research consultancy, The Survey Initiative. Here, she explains how the tide is beginning to turn on the gender pay gap. We’ve all heard about the gender pay gap and many of us have felt frustrated that we’re paid less than our male counterparts. In a...Read More

Deborah Knight, Director of Client Services at Perkbox In the era of the #MeToo Movement and a renewed focus on the gender pay gap, the reality of what it’s really like to be a woman in a leadership position has never been so topical. But while the workforce seems to be waking up to the...Read More