Equality and Human Rights Commission

Research report 9: Pay gaps across equality areas (PDF)
This report highlights new insights into pay gaps and pay penalties by gender and ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation and age, based upon secondary analysis of pay data in the Labour Force Survey.

Research report 14: Pay gaps across equality strands - a review (PDF)
This review examines recent research evidence on pay gaps in the UK (from 2000 onwards), to outline the gaps in the research evidence and indicate the key areas for future research work, and to draw out the policy and practice implications of the research.

Gender pay activity in large non-public sector organisations: Baseline report 2009 (PDF) [Word version]
This is the first annual report produced by the Commission to examine the nature and extent of existing measuring and publishing information on progress in closing the gender pay gap. The aim of this initial report is to establish a baseline from which the proposals for gender pay reporting can grow. We will produce similar reports on an annual basis for the next four years.

Research report 55: Gender pay gap reporting survey 2009 (PDF) [Word version]
This research was carried out to determine what employers in the private and voluntary sectors are currently doing to measure and report on gender pay gaps, that is, before any voluntary measures are developed, and to explore the reasons for measuring and reporting (or for not doing so) among these employers.