Flawed gender pay gap data is ‘barrier to progress’

Flawed gender pay gap data is ‘barrier to progress’

Save A leading academic has warned that flawed data on the UK’s gender pay gap risks slowing “progress” on equality in the workplace. Writing in the Financial Times, Geeta Nargund, pro-chancellor at the University of Portsmouth and chair of a consultancy called The Pipeline, was drawing attention to news last month that figures from the Office for National Statistics had underplayed the size of the pay gap for the last two decades. Professor Nar…