Charted Management Institution is an organization that is based in the UK that focuses on management within businesses.This organization conducted research on the difference in pay between men and women in executive positions. CMI discovered that there is about a 10,895 pound difference in women's salary who have the same position as men. Even though the salary for women have started to increase, it will take until 2109 for women to earn the same amount of pay as men. The head of the public affairs in CMI, Mike Petrook stated, “Our reaction to it taking almost 100 years to get any form of parity is an incredible alarm.” He also claims how this now presents the issue of women being discriminated against which will lead more women wanting to quite their jobs. Research also showed that last February redundancy was equal between men and women, but the inequality still remains in the high end positions,”where almost five times as many female directors as male directors lost their jobs.” Women's salaries are slowly increasing, but it is still evident that there is a glass ceiling.
Women not getting equal pay is a significant problem because this is gender discrimination. This article shows how even though women have been able to vote since 1928, they are still not viewed as equal citizens in society. This limits opportunities for women and presses the expectations of what women should be doing oppose to what they want to do. This inequality is an issue in many countries where women are not free to choose what they want to do, restricting the freedoms that women deserve.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/aug/31/cmi-equal-pay-report
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