UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers, analysis shows | Equal pay

According to an analysis based on ounce data, women with children earn less than 302 £ less than men with less children each week: one third per week is less and almost 20% less per hour.

This means that mothers’ equal wage day fell on September 1, almost three months before the equal payment day for all women. As of this date, mothers are working free of charge for the rest of the year compared to fathers.

Brear Brearley, the founder of Growth SPurt, a online work plan for parents, said, “The reason why gender payment deteriorates after having a child, a family’s starting family has a disproportionate effect on women’s gains,” he said.

The analysis has been accepted correctly by the National Statistics Office. But the picture is really worse, Bre Brearley said, because he doesn’t explain many parents who are not economically active because of their caring responsibilities.

“Nevertheless, we know that women have to abandon their jobs due to child care costs, birth discrimination and lack of flexible work,” he said.

According to Brearley’s previous analysis, pregnancy and birth discrimination continues to be widespread: every year about 74,000 women have to leave their jobs only to get pregnant or get birth leave. “The majority of mothers say they have faced some kind of discrimination or disadvantage, from abducted promotions to cope, as a result of getting mother’s permission,” he said.

The cost and existence of child care are the major obstacles in front of women who continue to work or continue to receive promotions, and the flexible and part -time roles that many mothers need to balance work and care are very low and offer limited opportunities for progress.

Brearley said that because women have higher probability to demand flexible work, Brearley said that they carry the career penalty for these roles without disproportionate.

“And finally, our outdated parenting permission system strengthens gender expectations: mothers are encouraged to spend a long time, and often fathers go back to work quickly. This means that care is not only the idea of ​​’women’s work’, but also continues to progress in the stance of men’s careers.

Penny East, General Manager of Fawcett Society, who calculated the Annual Payment Day, welcomed the analysis.

“It is important that mothers will fall much earlier than the equal wage day of equal wage,” he said. “Motherhood can create the superiority of a financial gap for many women. For many women, it is useful to remember that the motherhood penalty and gender wages, many women later pushed a pension payment gap that pushes life to retirement poverty,” he added.

“There is no good reason for the existence of any wage gap, and government and employers should do more for all women at every stage of our lives to balance the playground.”

“The research emphasizes how the difference in earnings is really opened when women become mothers.

“We have a permission system that strengthens the gender part of unpaid care, so even couples planning to share care see that their parents are still the assumed parent.

“It is really important for the government to realize how the current system is bad for everyone, and to make the reforms needed to allow parents to share both paid and unpaid work more fairly.”