Gender Diversity and the Gender Pay Gap

Abstract

Gender diversity is the phenomenon of placing the employees in diverse groups based on their gender. But there are some other aspects also on which the diversity is defined like age, religion, colour, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, and others. When this differentiation is practised in any organisation or workplace it is called gender diversity at workplace. Gender Diversity has been the reason for various issues at the workplace for female employees like pay gap, promotional opportunities, representation, involvement in decisions, harassment, and many others. And these issues have a direct and also indirect impact on the overall working of the company. One of the issues which will be studied in this paper is the gender pay gap; gender pay gap is the inequality in the payment which is received by male and female employees working at the same position in an organisation. This issue is prevalent at the global level even in these times; and there are many strategies being formulated by companies and experts to overcome this loophole. This paper will focus on the study of gender diversity in the workplace at different levels of the company, and the gender pay gap.