Equality and Human Rights Commission

Research

• Research report 55: Gender pay gap reporting survey 2009 (PDF) [Word version]
• Gender pay activity in large non-public sector organisations: baseline report 2009 (PDF) [Word version]
• Undervaluing Women’s Work (PDF)
  Literature review (including policy options) of the available research evidence on the undervaluation of women's work. Author: Damian Grimshaw and Jill Rubery. Year Published: 2007
• Equal Pay reviews survey 2005 (PDF)
  Survey research which examines the extent of equal pay review activity amongst employers in Britain. Author: Lorna Adams, Katie Carter and Stefan Schåfer. Year published: 2006
• Equal Pay reviews (PDF)
  Summary of two EOC research reports on equal pay reviews. a four page research findings. Year Published: 2005
• Equal Pay reviews in practice (PDF)
  Case study research which examines organisational experiences of carrying out equal pay reviews Author: Fiona Neathey; Rebecca Willison, Karen Ackroyd, Jo Regan and Darcy Hill. Year Published: 2005
• Equal Pay Reviews 2004 (PDF)
  Survey research which examines the extent of equal pay review activity amongst employers in Britain. Author: Stefan Schäfer, Mark Winterbotham and Fiona McAndrew. Year Published: 2005
• Valuable assets (PDF) and summary report (PDF)
  A general formal investigation into the role and status of classroom assistants in Scottish schools.  EOC.  Year Published: 2007
• Research report 17: Employment and earnings in the finance sector (PDF)
• Financial Services Inquiry: sex discrimination and gender pay gap report of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
• Briefing paper 2 - Gender pay gaps

Pay gaps across other equality strands

The Commission has published research into pay gaps across equalities areas. Download the research:

• Research report 9: Pay gaps across equalities areas (PDF)
• Research report 14: Pay gaps across the equality strands: a review (PDF)

Press Releases

• Commission publishes Equal Pay - Where Next? report  (November 2010) 
• Commission outlines new gender pay reporting proposals (January 2010)
• Commission calls for radical equal pay reform and a new approach to closing the pay gap  (March 2009)
• Commission consults on gender pay gap reporting (August 2009)
• Commission investigates equal pay for Pupil Support Assistants in Glasgow City Council (March 2009)
• The Commission's position on equal pay (Briefing March 2009)