November the 20th will mark Equal Pay Day - the day in the year when women effectively stop earning relative to men, due to the persistent gender pay gap. ONS figures suggest the gap has barely shifted in the past few years dropping just 0.2% from 15.1% in 2021 to 14.9% in 2022.
Making gender pay gap reporting mandatory in the UK for companies with over 250 employees has certainly increased transparency and spurred some action from business. But progress is slow and many companies still view it as a reputational issue rather than a business imperative.
