Fantastic piece by Legal Cheek on International Women’s Day…
A Twitter bot is targeting big firms on International Women’s Day with details of their gender pay gap.
The account @PayGapApp is retweeting law firm and other employers’ tweets commemorating the global day with an auto response detailing their median hourly pay gap using data from a UK government website.
“Stop posting platitudes,” the account’s banner reads. “Start fixing the problem.”
This year’s IWD theme is ‘#BreakTheBias’ and so a lot of the firms’ tweets describe how they’re committed to breaking gender inequality and calling out bias.
It’s all very awkward, and here are some of the law firms targeted so far:
In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 40.8% lower than men's. https://t.co/8Y8nit9WTJ
— Gender Pay Gap Bot (@PayGapApp) March 7, 2022
In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 16.8% lower than men's. https://t.co/59aCUjreVm
— Gender Pay Gap Bot (@PayGapApp) March 8, 2022
In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 24% lower than men's. https://t.co/6BnfHbysKu
— Gender Pay Gap Bot (@PayGapApp) March 8, 2022
Read the article to see which other firms are gender-washing
‘Gender pay gap bot’ targets law firms tweeting about International Women’s Day
