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8th March 2023
11:58am GMT
The Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 came into effect in May last year and ensured that organisations with over 250 employees must conduct gender pay disparity reports. This meant that the public could see how big or small the pay gap is in specific companies. With many corporations and civil service organisations now having to publish this issue for all to see, the results were shocking but not surprising. In December 2022, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform published the Gender Pay Gap Report 2022."The results were shocking but not surprising."
According to this report, on average, men are paid 5.71% higher than women. As for the median, it was found that women are paid 2% higher than men. This gap arises as a result of the number of men currently occupying senior roles.
PwC Ireland published their latest gender pay gap report in 2022 and revealed there was an average gender pay gap of less than 1% (0.9%). In 2019, this was at 5.7% between male and female pay.
When it comes to J.P. Morgan, the pay gap is 22.40% with men making more money. At KPMG, it's 6.9%. At TikTok and Google, both are 5%. Amazon Ireland Support Services, Amazon Data Services, the Amazon Development Centre and the Irish branch of AWS EMEA reported the mean gender pay gap to be between 4.3% and 19.7%. These all favoured men over women. Within the Gardaí Siochana, the pay gap was 4.81% higher in favour of men. On average, men are paid more than women in 91% of Irish entities that have released their gender pay gap reports, as of December 2022. It's safe to say that the issue still persists in Ireland. While many businesses like Facebook reported that there were equal men and women employed, they still reported a gap in gender equality based on pay. The gender pay gap is not a resolved issue, it is not an issue that only exists outside of Ireland, and it is certainly an issue that impacts the livelihood of almost all women in this country. While we are consistently seeing improvements, there is still a long way to go before this is equalised and a lot of mindsets need to be changed. Sexism in the workplace didn't end when women were granted access to the workforce, we are still fighting for it. Header image via Shutterstock This story originally appeared on her.ie READ NEXT: Billboard goes up in flames outside UK Burger King to promote new collaboration"Men are paid more than women in 91% of Irish entities."