There are many ways to tackle pay inequality – but trying to explain the problem absent is not one of themKnife-crime injuries are on the rise because people are being stabbed more often. It’s not much of an explanation: any police chief would be ridiculed for it. It certainly doesn’t justify the rise,or point towards possible solutions. It basically restates the issue in a slightly different way.
Yet when it comes to gender pay gaps, exposed by unusual requirements to publish the contrast between average male and female hourly rates, and employers are giving us just this kind of response. The reason for the hefty divides,they say, is that senior roles are dominated by men. That does not explain the problem; that is the problem. They are not recruiting or promoting women to top jobs, and in many cases are relying on them to do the lowest-paid work.
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Source: guardian.co.uk