UK gender gap continues to widen, says World Economic Forum report

UK gender gap continues to widen, says World Economic Forum report

The Guardian – Simon Goodley - 2014

We choose to expound you an article wich deals with differences between women and men at work in United Kingdom. This article is entitled “UK gender gap continues to widen, says World Economic Forum report”. It has been written by Simon Goodley and was published in The Guardian on October 2014.

First of all, we will talk to you about the article, summarize the report conclusions and tell you about the two interviews. Then, we will expound you how differences take place in other coutries and try to find solutions to reduce gaps.

I. The article

According to the article, the gap between men and women continues to widen. Ranked for eccart gender was conducted. Britain is the 26th largest in the world which is at its best score since 2008. In 2006, UK is the ninth and falls on the 18th place in 2008. The UK is on constantly declination because now it is 26th.

The first four ranking remains unchanged, and are:

1 Iceland

2 Finland

3 Norway

4 Sweden

The top 20 includes four categories: Economy / Education / Health / politic.

Uk has a low score for economic participation which deals with active woman ratio, even wage a function and number of women in executive position.

Two women was interwied :

Ann Francke, the chief executive of the Institute of Certified Management said one where women have benefited less than men were "unsustainable" in UK economy.

Women tend to have a low job responsibilities and the pay gap is alarming. But the care that developed as parental leave for men.

Saadia Zahidi, much progress on gender equality over the past 10 years for them. She says: “it is always disappointing when we see how young women see their ambition and how others see that the ambition of being a CEO, it is hard work and you really have to do wand for women. Even in 2014, which can be a problem.”

To conclude: the various reports began to have an impact on the business executive on the inequality between men and women.

II.

 Gender gap at work

A law voted on January 27 of 2011, written by European Commission, provides for the gradual introduction of quotas to the feminization of the companies’ board. The authorities concerned shall as a minimum have 40% women, otherwise a mechanism of financial penalties has also been made. Nine countries, as UK, have written to European Commission to indicate their rejection for this law. In UK, they aren’t law about quotas of feminization. However, campaigns for quotas men / women exist for 20 years. This logic of quotas is a political strategy than ideological commitment to advancing equality.

Most of women work in an administrative and secretarial sector. Contrariwise most of men are employed as managers and senior

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