Women's Work and Gender Pay Gap in the UK: Does Equal Pay Legislation Suffice?

Contemporary Issues
in Law

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Task-................................................................................................................................................1
“Women’s work” and the gender pay gap in the UK. Do you think the equal pay legislative
regime sufficiently protects women?......................................................................................1
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................1
To analyse the impact of gender inequality on the rights of women...............................................1
To evaluate the concept of gender inequality.........................................................................1
To determine the impact of the gender pay gap on the rights of women in the UK..............2
To examine the legislation at national and the international level which helps in curbing the
gender pay gap in the UK.......................................................................................................4
Analysis............................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
Recommendations............................................................................................................................6
References:.......................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The law can be defined as the set of rules that are applicable on every citizen of the
country. The basically maintains the peace and order in the society. It rules the conduct and the
behaviour of the individuals. The law is framed by the authorised authority such as the
parliament of the nation. The legislature is responsible to frame the laws for the country.
Moreover, in the legislature the bills are passed and debates on the subject matter of the bills are
executed in the legislative assembly. Then, after the discussion, the desired bill receives its
accent from the queen of the country(Brower and James, 2020). Then the, bill is converted into
the law. There are various types of laws such as the criminal law and the civil law. These laws
are equally applicable on both the men and women. This report would discuss about the gender
pay gap in the country. The gender pay gap is the difference in paying the amount for the same
work done by the male and the female in an organisation. This report would discuss about the
reasons, published data and case laws related to the gender pay gap in United Kingdom.
MAIN BODY
Task-
“Women’s work” and the gender pay gap in the UK. Do you think the equal pay legislative
regime sufficiently protects women?
Literature Review
To analyse the impact of gender inequality on the rights of women.
To evaluate the concept of gender inequality.
As per the Laura Bates in 2022, the women was not allowed to work during the last few
centuries in United Kingdom. But after the process of modernization, women were allowed to do
work but they are not paid equally as compare to the man in the country. The gender pay gap can
be defined as the differentiation in the amount to be paid to the male and the female in the
organisation for the same work done by them. The work is very similar of both the man and the
female but still the women are paid less as compare to the man in the country. There are various
legislations that is being formulated to decrease the gender pay gap in the United Kingdom. One
such regulation is the Equal Pay, 1967(Costa, Dias Joyce and Prodi, 2020). this act requires that
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