Gender Pay Gap

Thanks for the link, elegran.

Yes you are right bags that it exists and it depends how competitive their business environment.
There was a representative of a top city firm talking about the issue on R4 and they had looked at the problem and changed policies and procedures to retain and reward female talent and potential instead of letting it drift away.
gracesgran - under the present benefits regime, large numbers of unemployed people have been pressured into becoming "self employed". This counts as a win for the organisations that are contracted to help people find work. However starting up as any kind of self employed not easy and you have no paid holidays or anything like that. There has also been a trend of organisations of all kinds taking on people on a "self employed" basis to avoid giving them full rights and fair pay. Happened to my niece, working for a university owned museum (not an unscrupulous private business!). Recruitment freeze in place. So what should have been a humble part time job - a job that needed doing on a permanent basis - was given to her as a part time "consultant" and she had to sort out all her own tax etc etc. and never able to feel fully part of the team.
I was annoyed during the election campaign that these people were getting counted twice - as part of the "numbers who had found work" as well as being touted by Cameraon as part of the number of "new businesses we have created" .

JessM, exactly what our DD1 is doing in her top performing City Firm. First step is to get other Partners/Senior managers to admit there is an issue to be addressed. Once that is accepted- the rest becomes much easier.

Another interesting article about (and by) women in business Do women want different business advice from men? It includes a video by Justine Roberts, founder of Mumsnet.