Gender pay gap efforts "sufficient"
Rules that have been set up to tackle the gender pay gap are "sufficient", the president of the British Association for Women Entrepreneurs (BAWE) has said.
Tatjana Hine explained that current guidance to combat the problem are more than enough and additional rules could actually result in an opposite effect.
"I think we now have sufficient rules and guidance. I think we have got to the stage now where if we are not careful it will actually work against women rather than for them," she said.
"The glass ceiling is something that in some industries will always be there, but to some extent women will never be affected by the glass ceiling … We do not always say that it is a full glass ceiling. There are women who will always work their way through it."
Recent research by the Equality and Human Rights Commission revealed that women working in the City of London are paid up to 60 per cent less than men.
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Surprised that the figures in the City are so stark but as with most statistics there probably lies an awful lot more complexity behind the numbers that aren't revealed in the figures on their own.
"I think we now have sufficient rules and guidance. I think we have got to the stage now where if we are not careful it will actually work against women rather than for them,"
Haha, I could just imagine an institute representing men, starting to pick up the case on positive discrimnation for women as the result of over-zealous legislation.
Positive discrimination is a really touchy area as it is, in itself, discrimination regardless of how you present it. It is also only likely to stir up resentment - a point clearly picked up by Tatjana Hine.