FDA supports Equal Pay Day

Women's equality campaign group The Fawcett Society is calling today - Tuesday 2 November - Equal Pay Day. It has calculated that the average full-time pay gap between women and men - at 16.4% - is equivalent to men being paid all the year round while women work for free after 2 November.

The Fawcett Society is calling on the Government to take action to end the pay gap between men and women once and for all. It is asking for an extension of the right to request flexible working to all employees and wants the Government to encourage shared parenting through promoting flexible parental leave. For more information please go to The Fawcett Society website.

Ro Marsh, FDA national officer with responsibility for equality, said: "The FDA is keen to persuade the Government to put its own house in order on this issue, and to recognise that women are still concentrated in the lower ranks of the civil service, leading to an unnecessary gender pay gap.

"We are also pushing the Government to monitor its own departments by collecting, collating and comparing equal pay data, covering all characteristics, from across the civil service on a regular basis, in order to determine whether or not they are managing to meet their own diversity targets."

Please click on the following link for more on the FDA's equality and diversity work.