European women still earning less than men

• Pay discrimination where pay systems are unfair to women employees.
Whatever the truth of the aphorism that a mother's place is in the wrong, it seems that working mothers, at least, are in the wrong place. The Women and Work Commission (WWC) found that the pay gap was due not so much to a pattern of paying women less than men for doing the same job as to something far harder to root out. Women are making the wrong choices early in their careers and sliding into dead-end part-time jobs after they have children, with serious consequences for their lifetime earnings.
According to the WWC, the gender pay gap opens early. Boys and girls study different subjects in school, and boys' subjects lead to more lucrative careers. They then take different degrees and work in different sorts of jobs.
The gap widens to a chasm during women's working lives, for a fundamental biological reason: motherhood. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), a research outfit, the hourly pay of women with children relative to that of men with children falls to 67%. And the Institute for Public Policy Research, another think-tank, recently calculated that a woman with middling skills who has a baby at age 24 loses £564,000 ($981,000) in lifetime earnings compared with one who remains childless.
Women and Work Commission
In the UK, the Government has also established the Women and Work Commission to examine the problem of the gender pay gap and other issues affecting women’s employment. The Women and Work Commission will look at:
• How men’s and women’s education and skills affect which jobs they can get;
• Promotion and career progression – the ‘glass ceiling’;
• Women’s experiences in the job market before and after having children;
• The different experiences of women working full-time and part-time.
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