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Companies in the U.K. will soon be forced by law to undergo "compulsory gender audits," in an effort created to expose pay differences between men and women. Since companies aren't forced by law to pay men and women the same wages, the British government hopes these gender audits will shame businesses that continually underpay women.
Not surprisingly, this effort hasn't come without resistance. Many businesses said they were "shocked" to hear of the new audits. Their defense? The economic situation. They claim their first order of biz should be "retaining staff and preparing for the recovery," not submitting to new gender regulations.
What do you think? Should gender equality take a back seat to the economy? Should the U.S. implement a gender-audit policy like this?
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Tuesday 12 May
By ladyzekis
Holy crap. Is this really a question? It's shocking to me that any woman would vote for a politician who didn't think her work was worth the same as a man's. It's shocking to me that anyone could even THINK it was cool to avoid raising women's wages because of tough times. As if times aren't tough for them - only for men and business owners (probably also men)?
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