A Twitter bot has been causing reputational chaos for hundreds of British organisations by highlighting hypocrisy about the gender pay gap.Gender Pay GapThe bot was created by copywriter Francesca Lawson and software developer Ali Fensome with the strapline"Deeds not words. Stop posting platitudes. Start fixing the problem".
The figures are available thanks to 2017 legislation requiring organisations with more than 250 employees to publish them annually. In some cases, the disparity is appalling. The government's innovation agency Innovate UK, for example, has a pay gap of 36 per cent, while at low-cost airline Ryanair it's 68.6 per cent. At women's clothes retailer Missguided, meanwhile, the figure is 40 per cent and at Young's Pubs it's an astonishing 73.2 per cent.
Many public sector organizations have also been shamed. The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has a gender pay gap of 19.5 per cent, while the figure is 16.8 per cent for the Treasury, 14.4 for Humberside Police and 8.8 per cent for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs . Many of the companies' tweets are toe-curlingly inappropriate - some feature only pictures of men, for example, while others present women in sterotypical roles. The London Dungeon, for some reason, decided to use the day to suggest that Jack the Ripper might have been a woman, and to highlight female murderers.
equal pay should be as a result for equal output..... not because of gender