What the pay gap looks like in 2005
On average, male trainees receive a take home pay of £153 per week compared to female trainees who earn £113 per week. This £40 pay gap can largely be explained by the high level of gender segregation in many of the sectors. Men dominate in the traditionally highly paid sectors and women in the lower paid sectors.
From DfES’ report (pdf) Apprenticeship Pay: A Survey of Earnings by Sector, published yesterday.
Isn’t it great to know that a new system, established less than a decade ago, mirrors the inequalities in the job market as a whole? A 26% pay gap, no less.
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Steve, I said your next comment would be removed, and so it has been.
You clearly hate blackmen you white woman
By the way I said men were better than women, which is true.
I don’t hate black men, and men are not “better” than women.
If you’re not willing to engage with the discussions on this blog constructively then I will block you permanently, and, as you are posting from a work computer, I will email your IS department to complain about your behaviour. I don’t mind people who disagree with me, I mind being accused of racism.
If it was me, I’d ban him!
So much for freedom of speech. If anyone dares dsagree with you threaten them. Go ahead and contact the IS department I have not posted anything offensive on this site. Of course after you have done that I will report you to the Labour Party NEC for sexist (anti-male) contents of this whole blog.
I do not think you can call it sexism to point out a FACT that there is a pay gap between men and women, if anything the sexism is in that fact itself: that men are paid more than women.
My blog, my rules. You’re blocked, Steve. Go foam at the mouth on some other blog.
Actually, Steve, I think you’ll find that Antonia hasn’t got a problem with people disgareeing with her - it’s just when you post comments like this:
Steve - your comments are so predictable. If you can’t come up with any factual basis to your anti-feminist argument, then resort to name-calling. Do you really think any of the women on this site care if you think they are “ugly”.
Men must realise they are dinosaurs in a modern world. Stick by the rules of the female superior race. Remember they gave birth they are a diety they should also have the right to take life.Men had their chance but abused it children and women now rule. men must tow the line, with no questions asked.