{"id":2495,"date":"2016-03-24T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:58","slug":"gender-discrimination-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/03\/24\/gender-discrimination-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender discrimination in the UK."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Following on from last week\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/economic-issues\/equality-issues\/women-who-become-mothers-33-suffer-15-pay-penalty-says-tuc\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">TUC report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> which found that <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u2018Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less\u2019, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/pregnancy-and-maternity-related-discrimination-and-disadvantage-final-reports\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">UK Government this week released the results of a survey on pregnancy and maternity-related discrimination<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> and disadvantage in the workplace based on survey interviews with 3,254 mothers and 3,034 employers.\u00a0 Shockingly 77% said they had\u00a0 a negative or possibly discriminatory experience <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">during pregnancy, maternity leave, and\/or on return from maternity leave.\u00a0 While 84% employers reported that it was in their interests to support <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">pregnant women and those on maternity leave,\u00a0a quarter of employers felt it was reasonable during recruitment to ask women about their plans to have children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Also published this week <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalityhumanrights.com\/legal-and-policy\/our-legal-work\/inquiries-and-assessments\/inquiry-recruitment-and-appointment-practices-company-boards\/women-boards-inquiry-report-findings\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Equality and Human Rights Commission review progress on women on FTSE boards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 Between 2010-2015 FTSE 350 boards with women rose from 9.5 \u2013 21.5% however men still held 78% of FTSE director roles in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from last week\u2019s TUC report which found that \u2018Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less\u2019, the UK Government this week released the results of a survey on pregnancy and maternity-related discrimination and disadvantage in the workplace based on survey interviews with 3,254 mothers and 3,034 employers.\u00a0 Shockingly 77% said they had\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,9],"tags":[52,65,243,93,99],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-feminism","tag-labour-market","tag-sociology","tag-united-kingdom","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}