Only ourselves to blame on pay issues?

A swathe of stories in the UK press this week about the Pay Gap issue has columnists and career women agonising over why the slowly narrowing gap between what high-end men and women earn has gone into reverse after eleven years.

This isn’t blue-collar stuff – the survey by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) found that it’s the differential between pay for women and men in top professional jobs.

According to figures given in the UK’s Daily Telegraph, the research found that male managers earned an average of £6,076 (approximately $12,000) more each year than their female counterparts.

But the truly staggering figure was the difference between male and female directors: £49,233 per annum. (An agonising $100,000). Gee. That hurts.

Camilla Cavendish, London Times columnist, says it’s because women just don’t ask for more money, when it’s hard-wired into males to do so.

“We have to grit our teeth and face up to the uncomfortable fact that what we don’t ask for we may not get,” says Camilla.

Since how you are rewarded is central to what we at TheGlassHammer consider to be true workplace equality, post a comment below giving us your views.