06 Mar 2019

Research: TUC ‘Women’s Pay Day’

A new report by the TUC (and issued on the first days of its annual Women’s Conference in London), reveals March 6th is the first day of the year where the average women ‘starts getting paid’. It argues women effectively work the first 65 days of the year for free because of the gender pay gap.

Amongst its findings is data that shows:

The current gender pay gap for all employees is 17.9%
In the East of England the gender pay gap is 20.3%, so Women’s Pay Day in that part of the country won’t fall for another 9 days (Friday 15 March)
Women in the South East see a 19.3% pay gap, while for those in the East Midlands it’s 19.2%, meaning they’ll have to wait 11 March for their ‘Women’s Pay Day’
The longest wait for ‘Women’s Pay Day’ comes in finance and insurance. The gender pay gap is the equivalent of 130 days, meaning wait for more than a third of the year before their ‘pay day’ kicks in on 10 May 2019