Sober Steve on Nostr: I want to comment on the Department of Education's Gender Pay Gap Report¹ for 2024. ...
I want to comment on the Department of Education's Gender Pay Gap Report¹ for 2024.
[1]: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/b1659-gender-pay-gap-report-2024/, published on December 19, 2024.
Here are 3 quotes from that document:
1. “The Department of Education has made great strides in fostering gender parity across all senior management grades, with over 66% of senior managers being women.”
2. “As the Department has more women than men employed at almost all of the grades, the question could be asked as to why any gender pay gap exists at all.”
3. Under “Measures to address the gender pay gap”: “participation of Department staff at Dublin Pride and other Pride-related events”.
And my comments:
1. If 66% of senior managers were men, would the Department be satisfied? Would it describe that state of affairs as “gender parity”?
2. Unless I'm missing something, that sentence is seriously innumerate.
3. What does participation in Pride have to do with the “gender pay gap”?
[1]: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/b1659-gender-pay-gap-report-2024/, published on December 19, 2024.
Here are 3 quotes from that document:
1. “The Department of Education has made great strides in fostering gender parity across all senior management grades, with over 66% of senior managers being women.”
2. “As the Department has more women than men employed at almost all of the grades, the question could be asked as to why any gender pay gap exists at all.”
3. Under “Measures to address the gender pay gap”: “participation of Department staff at Dublin Pride and other Pride-related events”.
And my comments:
1. If 66% of senior managers were men, would the Department be satisfied? Would it describe that state of affairs as “gender parity”?
2. Unless I'm missing something, that sentence is seriously innumerate.
3. What does participation in Pride have to do with the “gender pay gap”?