Meaning of pay gap | Babel Free

Definitions

The difference in salaries between one group and another.

Equivalents

Examples

“gender pay gap”

“race pay gap”

“sexual orientation pay gap”

“The growth of the service sector has provided jobs for women; women have increased their participation in the labor market; the pay gap between women and men has been reduced somewhat; women have entered a wider range of jobs; and women's share of higher-paying jobs has increased.”

“Uncertain or lost jobs, quadrupled rents, and the pay gap between Wessi and Ossi loom far larger in the average easterner's consciousness than the new family car.”

“Female lawyers are less than half as likely as similarly qualified male colleagues to become partners, and pay gaps range from 10 to 35 percent between men and women in comparable positions. The disparities are even greater for women of color.”

“Although there has been a significant closing of the gender pay gap especially among educated young women, the family gap – the gap that opens up when women have children – remains stubbornly resistant.”

“The widespread persistence of gender and racial pay gaps is frequently cited as evidence against the proposition that discrimination in competitive markets will be self-extinguishing [...].”

“While companies are bravely talking about their efforts to redress the gender pay gap (large employers will be compelled to report details of how they pay their male and female staff in April), we know that women are, on average, much worse paid than men throughout the City. Broadly, power remains in men's hands.”

“The race pay gap reporting is intended to mirror elements of the gender pay gap regulations, proposing the same threshold of 250 employees or above for mandatory reporting.”

“With the sexual orientation pay gap that our community has to deal with, not only do we have more debt to pay off, we struggle harder to do so.”

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