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Welsh housing associations have 8% gender pay gap
Women working for housing associations in Wales are paid 8% less on average than their male colleagues, new gender pay gap data reveals.
Across the 13 associations in the sector to report their gender pay gap data, the mean gap between women and men’s pay was 8.1%, while the median was 8%.
The overall median gap for the UK is 9.7%.
Four landlords – Coastal Housing Group, Trivallis, Newport City Homes and Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd Cyfyngedig – recorded negative median gaps, meaning women were paid more than men on average.
One association – Tai Tarian – had no gender pay gap, while men tended to be paid more at the other eight.
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The largest pay gap was at 5,700-home landlord Clwyd Alyn, with an 18.2% discrepancy.
“The results partly reflect the large numbers of women, rather than men, currently working in care and extra care roles within the group, where salaries are typically lower,” said Elaine Gilbert, director of human resources at the Pennaf Housing Group, of which Clwyd Alyn is a subsidiary.
“We have already put a wide range of measures in place to address the differences in gender pay across the group, such as offering job shadowing opportunities, reviewing future recruitment processes and piloting approaches to help us identify staff who can take on broader roles and develop within the organisation.”
While women accounted for 64.8% of staff in the lower quartile of earners at the associations, they took just 49% of the top-earning roles.
A spokesperson for Tai Pawb, a charity which promotes equality in Welsh housing, said: “We are encouraged that the average gap for Welsh housing associations is lower than the UK overall, but recognise there is still some work to be done.
“However, the reasons for pay gaps are complex and is difficult to draw too many conclusions from this preliminary data. We have commissioned some further research and we look forward to sharing our findings soon.”
