Gender pay gap means women work 67 days a year for free, says TUC

Women in the UK effectively work for free for more than two months a year because of the country’s gender pay gap, according to the TUC.

In a report published to coincide with International Women’s Day, the trade union body called on the government to require employers to carry out pay audits and produce action plans to close the gap in their workplace.

The gender pay gap is the difference between the average hourly earnings of men and women. Large companies have to report information about this by the 4 April.

According to the Office for National Statistics, when all workers, full and part-time, are included, the pay gap is 18.4%. “This … means that women effectively work for free for the first 67 days of the year,” said the TUC.



Source :- theguardian