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Business World's Ambivalence Contributes to Continuing Pay Gap
Credit: Guardian.co.uk
The gender gap continues to persist in the technology sector, where women continue to earn less than their male peers, even when experience and skills are comparable. By extrapolating current IT salary growth rates for women and men and using current salary earning levels in Britian, the National Management Salary Survey came up with how long it will take women to earn as much as men. Female salaries in the IT sector increased by 2.1 percent in the last 12 months, compared to 1.4 percent for men. With male managers earning on average £17,736 more than female managers, it will take women 63 years to catch up with men—unless something changes fairly drastically.
The general consensus is that women lose earning power when they take time off to look after children, thereby increasing the gap. However, the report also finds a disparity between men and women lower down the career ladder, with male junior executives receiving £1,119 more than their female counterparts. If women are getting paid less in entry-level positions, then something's gone a bit wrong. Women were also targeted disproportionately by last year's dismissals, with 4.5 percent experiencing the process compared to 3 percent of men. And those who managed to avoid dismissal were disproportionately more likely to feel wholly fed up with their jobs—at director level, 7.7 percent of women voluntarily left their posts last year, while 3.6 percent of men did the same.
From ComputerWeekly.com
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