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Barclays International reveals its gender pay gap of 48%

by Gavin Hinks on February 23, 2018

Barclays reveals the challenge facing financial services on equal pay by disclosing that on average women are paid almost half as much as men at the bank.

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Barclays International, the investment bank, has revealed it has an average gender pay gap of 48%, a hefty differential illustrating the challenge facing financial services on equal pay.

The figure came as part of Barclay’s annual report, which also revealed the gap for Barclays UK—the high street bank operations—at 26%.

In December Shell reported a pay gap of 22.2%, while PwC disclosed an average hourly pay gap of 13.7% for the year to April 2017.

The average gender pay gap for bonuses at Barclays International stood at 78.7%, and 60% for Barclays UK.

“At Barclays, our focus goes beyond simply addressing the gender pay gap and extends to our internal and external gender equality commitments.”

–Barclays’ annual report

Barclays said in its annual report that tackling the pay gap would “take time” and that the bank remained focused on “improving gender diversity through a workplace environment that supports and empowers women”.

“At Barclays, our focus goes beyond simply addressing the gender pay gap and extends to our internal and external gender equality commitments,” said the report.
“Across both our organisations, and in the financial services industry, we are dedicated to enabling women to fulfil their career aspirations.

“To achieve this goal and thereby narrow our gender pay gap, we will continue to focus on ensuring there is no bias in the hiring, promotion, development and retention of women at Barclays.”

Barclays said it was aiming to lift the percentage of women among directors and managing directors to 26% by year-end 2018 (from 24% in 2017). The bank also aims to improve female representation on its board to 33% by 2020. The figure was 21% last year and 31% in 2016.

Jes Staley, Barclays’ chief executive, is quoted in The Times as saying he would like to see equal pay but society, in general, has “a long way to go”.

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