Mind The Gap: Gender Pay Gap in The City
The latest reports from City law firms show that there has been little progress in narrowing the gender pay gap.
The latest reports from City law firms show that there has been little progress in narrowing the gender pay gap.
In March 2021 the Bar Council wrote to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and the Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service (BTAS) to express their concerns about the handling of cases of sexual harassment among barristers.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd, is to undergo trial.
The tech giant is currently under investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), amid allegations that its hiring and promotion policies are potentially impacted by systemic racial bias.
The government’s gender pay gap reporting service may be deferred for a second year running, which is likely to undermine decades of work to close the gender pay gap in the UK. Concerns have been raised about the time it will take to get reporting back up and running, by which time it could be noted that the government has failed to commit to change in this area.
A recent Parker review has revealed there are no black executives in any of the top three positions in FTSE 100 companies in the UK.
In the first penalty of its kind, Paris authorities have received a historic €90,000 fine for recruiting too many women to executive roles. In 2018, contrary to French law mandating “gender parity” in public appointments, authorities awarded almost 70% of roles to women.
After failing to hit gender diversity targets for 2020, global law firm HFW has announced the launch of a new strategy, supported by a series of ambitious targets.
BAME appointments to the boards of some of the largest UK companies have stalled in 2020, while board gender parity has significantly progressed.
Recent research undertaken by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) shows that minority ethnic women are the lowest-earning barristers in the profession.