Gender pay gap and unconscious bias issues revealed

The gender pay gap for benchmarking organisations is 16.6% - lower than the overall gender pay gap (19.1%) while unconscious bias continues to play a role during all the stages of recruitment of BAME candidates, from application, through shortlisting and interview to job offer, according to research.

Opportunity Now and Race for Opportunity have published two Trends Papers from their 2014 Gender and Race Benchmark, covering Fair Pay and Recruitment.

The findings show that one in five organisations has never conducted an equal pay audit for gender but three in five organisations do currently carry out pay audits for gender.