Shell Says Gender Pay Gap at Its UK Businesses Falls to 18.6%
November 21 2018 - 7:29AM
Dow Jones News
By Oliver Griffin
Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN) on Wednesday reported that the
gender pay gap at its U.K. companies in 2018 is 18.6%, which it
attributed to having more men than women in senior positions.
The Anglo-Dutch oil-and-gas company said that while the average
hourly rate for its female employees was lower than male employees'
average pay, it improved on the previous year, when the pay gap
between men and women averaged 22.2%.
Shell is confident that it pays men and women equally for work
of equal value, the company said.
As well as having fewer women in senior positions, the company
said it employed more men in specialist roles and also cited the
effect of relatively fewer women studying engineering at university
over many years.
Write to Oliver Griffin at oliver.griffin@dowjones.com;
@OliGGriffin
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 21, 2018 07:14 ET (12:14 GMT)
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