Gender Wage Gap Analysis in UK - Desklib

GENDER WAGE GAP 1
Gender Wage Gap
Name of Student
Institution
Course

Wage Gap In Gender
Introduction
This research assignment aims at obtaining results from the wage gap data. It requires analysis to
achieve its main objectives. The data is going to be analyzed using Stata software to be able to get
depth insight of the data provided. In this section, the results obtained from the analysis are discussed.
We need to run a regression analysis to estimate the average size of the gender gap pay. We will also
capture other variables that might control the gender gap pay. We will also determine whether the gap
shrunk after the implementation of the policy in 2007. Therefore, we will evaluate whether there is a
significant change.
The literature articles with the same topic of study will be reviewed to give more and detailed
information on the subject of investigation. The report will enlighten our knowledge of what is already
available in the group. This is of importance because it gives ideas of what to expect when doing the
research. Later, real available data will be used to conduct the analysis. Appropriate analysis techniques
will be applied to the objective of the research. The results obtained from the analysis will be explained
in details for a more comfortable and swift understanding of the data about the objective question.
The results obtained will be compared with the results obtained earlier as stated in the literature review.
Finally, we will summarize our research and comment on the analysis explaining whether what was
intended was achieved or not.
Literature review
The gender pay gap is defined as the difference between the male and female pay divided by that of the
male. There has been a consistent reform for the past 20 years to encourage women to fully participate
in the labor market to better their pay. There have been a persistence gender pay differences even after

the reforms. Comparing the UK to other countries, gender pay was better. The figure below summaries
the gender pay gap according to their respective countries.
There have been initiatives to reduce the gender pay gap over recent years. Employment and hours
were the factors that were being focused on. In 1997, the government of UK introduced labor policies
such that the low-income were targeted more so women.
The figure below shows the employment rate for both women and men from 1994 to 2014.

The figure below shows an increase in women income form 61 % to 69 % from 1994 to 2014. Even
though there was an increase in women's wages, the gap between females and males was persistent.
Another initiative was introduced in 2003 by the name ‘right to request flexible working' law' gave
parents who had children of ages below six more flexible working requirement which they were
allowed to request. Also, working rights were strengthened when part-time employment was introduced
in 2000. All these were submitted to favor the female. The impact of all these was still minimal.
The figure below shows the distribution of weekly work time for both the females and the males.