The truth regarding the gender pay gap is that it affects females from different backgrounds, ages, races and educational levels. This ongoing issue does not seem likely to go away on its own. Women, who are as equally trained and educated, with the same experience as men are not getting equal pay. In today’s society, stereotypes are generated concerning women’s capabilities and this result in discrimination. Gender discrimination in work circumstances takes on many different forms; ranging from different payments between men and women who perform the same duties equally as well as when the income of men and women and retirement savings are stacked up against their health care cost and life expectancies, women are much farther behind than men are.
The gender wage gap results on women making less money than men do for doing the exact same job. In every occupational category there is a gender pay gap favouring full-time working men over full-time working women. The capacity of this gap depends on numerous factors like work, family and societal factors, including society’s stereotypes about the work that women and men expected to do in society’s view do and the way women and men ‘’should’’ engage in the workforce. This can lead to discrimination, both direct and indirect. Under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010), ‘direct discrimination occurs where an employer treats someone less favourably because of their age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy or