![]() Tell your women peers what you earnĭon’t wait to be asked. ![]() Men - rather than doing something new just today, and thinking about equal pay today, why not start a new habit that you can reflect on by 18 Dec and again on ? Here are TEN things men can do right now 1. For Black and Hispanic women, the deadline is even further away. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased this time from 100 years. Mark your calendars for 2157 the global gender gap is not expected to close for another 136 years. How long will it take to close the pay gap if we do nothing about it? It takes Black women 8 extra months on average to earn what white men earn. Pay inequality is directly linked to racial inequality. In this crisis - and in every single crisis, it's women who disproportionately bear the brunt. ![]() The coronavirus pandemic has hit women the hardest. Yet, women have been demanding #equalpay since 1833. We know women in their mid-30s won’t achieve gender equality in their lifetimes. Please share this with your spouses, partners, brothers, uncles, co-workers, managers, leaders and sons. Here are 10 things men can DO today on Equal Pay Day AND every single day after that, to help close the gender pay gap. Fawcett uses the mean, full-time, hourly gender pay gap for the UK to calculate the gender pay gap for Equal Pay Day which this year is 11.9%, an increase from 10.6% last year. The gender pay gap is the difference between the average pay of men and women within a particular group or population. It marks the day where women effectively on average, stop earning relative to men because of the gender pay gap. Equal Pay Day is a national campaign led by the Fawcett Society in the UK.
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