Creating equality at work from play to pay
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GapSquare CEO Dr. Zara Nanu believes it will take society 200 years to achieve pay parity between men and women.
In a talk at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit earlier this year, Dr. Nanu acknowledged the problem of pay scale disparity is systemic, but reminded listeners that progress is being made.
"The progress we've been talking about today, and we've been making with tech, has accelerated significantly over the past 20 years or so. But at the same time, we should remember that only 100 years ago, women needed the permission of their husbands to go to work," she said.
Nanu added that nearly seven years ago, the UK government implemented legislation requiring businesses with 250 or more staffers to report on gender pay gaps annually. Those reports have helped shed light not just on the gender pay gap broadly, but on how it differs in gaming specifically.
She continued, "Usually pay gaps are more exposing issues about the organization. It's exposing issues about men and women in leadership roles. It's exposing issues about men and women in different occupations. It's highlighting career progression and things like that. Pay gaps are about the organization, not the person; equal pay is about the person.
"Does the person doing work of equal value get paid the same across the organization? The equal pay agenda is really interesting because it's constantly evolving."
She described fair pay as something with multiple definitions.
"It's about transparency. It's about average gaps, it's about equal pay, it's about pay equity, but also it's about how fairly are people being paid within the region that they live," Nanu explained.
"Does this meet their
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