Women 'should speak up over pay discrimination'

Female workers who feel they have been the victims of pay discrimination should raise the issue with their employers, it has been claimed.

According to Maxine Benson, co-founder of Everywoman, bringing the subject into the light is the only way it will be tackled and fair remuneration policies adopted.

Her comments come in the wake of figures from the Fawcett Society, which suggested that 85 per cent of the public are in support of mandatory pay audits under which businesses would have to disclose how much money their male and female workers receive.

She said: "As long as things are hidden and not spoken about, they will never go away, whether we are talking about pay or any form of discrimination."

Ms Benson went on to state that women should have the confidence to ask managers for pay which is equivalent to male colleagues who are performing the same roles.
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02/11/2009 15:25

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