If you really care about something, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse – or so the saying goes.
It is perhaps an adage that could be applied to our own companies and organisations regarding the gender pay gap.
Thanks to new legislation, all organisations with more than 250 employees must declare how much they pay men on average per hour compared to women.
While this is not the same as equal pay, the results do not make for comfortable reading for anyone who wants to see gender pay parity – which surely all of us, men and women, do.
In the UK the average gap for full and part-time workers in median earnings, considered to be the most representative indicator, is 18.4pc.
Many might think that is too high – men on average taking home nearly a fifth more than women – but in many Norfolk organisations, the gap is even larger.
There are, of course, valid explanations for some of the discrepancies.
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