How do you drive Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace? We’ve partnered with specialist diversity and inclusion organisations: Qlearsite, CV Library, Pearn Kandola, The Kaleidoscope Group, and the Inclusive Group to survey 7,500 Irish and UK professionals - to understand the career challenges and workplace experiences through the lenses of Gender, Ethnicity, Age and Disability. Access the full strategic D&I report here.
In our chapter on Gender, we analyse the progress made by Irish and UK businesses in closing the gender pay gap, and the ability of female professionals to access progression opportunities in the workplace.
The pandemic and the resulting social and economic fallout has hit women, especially those with children, a great deal harder than men.
With the gender pay gap currently standing at 15.9% for 2020, rather than seeing an improvement trend, we stand to lose any progress made in this area if corrective action is not taken fast. And yet, with the government suspending the gender pay gaps reporting obligations, positive progress seems out of reach.
Inequalities that existed before the pandemic have been exacerbated and magnified by the pandemic not just for women, but for all the most vulnerable groups of people in our organisations and wider society.
In 2020, only 5% of FTSE 100 CEOs were women, which means statistically speaking, a FTSE 100 CEO is more likely to be called John than be a woman or a person of colour. Sadly, our research confirmed that only 36% of female respondents were in a managerial role, compared to 43% of males. Additionally, we had more than double the number of male c-suite respondents, as compared to female (71% male vs. 29% female).
The lack of female progression into leadership roles filters down to earnings, with only 24% of women earning above the UK average salary for management jobs, compared to 33% of males. In Ireland these figures correspond to 37% of women and 50% men.
Our research also indicates that women struggle more with salary negotiations than men do.
How can organisations close the disability employment gap?
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