We need to break the low pay trap for women. It’s time to for fresh conversations about income inequality and distributive justice. Wage discrimination is easily implemented when employers adopt pay secrecy during recruitment.
The Low Pay Trap for Women and the Payslip Price-fix
South African employers openly extort rival employer payslips from job applicants during recruitment. This maintains a low pay trap for women.
The practice of using competitor firms proprietary information to establish wages, outlawed in many American states, has been found to give rise to income inequality.
Young Women’s Trust chief executive says
“We have to break the cycle that traps women in low pay. Women often start work on a lower salary than men, move to a new job and are paid based on their previous wage, as opposed to what they or the role are worth – so they continue to be paid less. Ending this practice is crucial to ending the gender pay gap.
“Our research shows that women are more likely to disregard jobs if they feel their skills don’t match up to them, compared to men who often apply anyway.
Posting salary details in job adverts would help women to see that jobs are in fact at their level and give them an idea of where they should be negotiating from to progress their pay.”
Dr Carole Easton OBE
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LET’S BREAK THE LOW PAY TRAP FOR WOMEN!
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