A female-centred workplace is a more appreciative one, Swedish research finds, but with a gender gap of 8%, nice doesn’t cut it with pay
last week. It included the joyful reminder that last year our pay didn’t keep up with rising prices, for thewhat the data tells us
is going on gender pay gap-wise. Among full-time employees it’s 8%. On the positive side, that’s way down from an absolutely staggering 36% in 1971, but it hasn’t budged much in recent years. The remaining gap is largely about workers aged 40-plus, which is the age at which the very different impacts of having children kick in on mothers’ and fathers’ careers.shows that women expend more energy at work expressing gratitude for their colleagues’ efforts.
This isn’t just about the kind of jobs women are more concentrated in: firms also become more appreciative over time when they hire more women, and different workplaces of the same firm show the same pattern. Interestingly, while it’s women doing the appreciating, men and women both report the increases in receiving it.
This matters: greater appreciation increases job satisfaction and wellbeing. Maybe it also helps explain why the Boris era, male-dominated, Downing Street was such a
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