Fronted by the UK’s Minister for Women, Baroness Stedman-Scott, the initiative will also require organisations to list salaries on their job adverts. Research suggests these bans have reduced the gender pay gap by two percentage points in areas where they have been enacted. The Fawcett Society, which has long campaigned for non-disclosure on salary history in the UK, says the US experience proves this is a “simple, evidence-led way” to eliminate embedded bias. It is calling on employers to answer the Government’s call and commit to better salary transparency in the recruitment process. As of the beginning of March, less than a quarter of UK firms that are required to submit their gender pay gap data to the Government had done so.

Source: The Herald March 14, 2022 18:50 UTC