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date	11/03/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gender: Equality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the World Economic Forum survey of the global gender gap for 2014 in which the United Kingdom fell to 26th place, behind Rwanda and the Philippines.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead
uin	HL5676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The UK’s ranking in the Global Gender Gap 2014 report is in part a reflection of rapid improvement from other countries. The UK also fares less well because of the measures used to inform the index; for example, economic participation and opportunity includes the difference in average yearly earnings of women and men, a measure that disadvantages the UK where many women choose to work part-time in order to balance family and work commitments. This measure also means the UK compares unfavourably to countries such as Rwanda and the Philippines where there are smaller differences in income between men and women but earnings are very much lower than in the UK.</p><p>Under this government, there are more women in work than ever before, more women-led business than ever before, and the gender pay gap, measured by hourly earnings, is the lowest since records began.</p> answering member printed Baroness Garden of Frognal question first answered 23/03/2015 15:23:51 answering member 3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal
tabling member	3895 label Biography information for Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

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date	28/10/2014
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gender: Equality
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to reduce the gap between men and women in the workplace, in the light of the World Economic Forum report on Britain's ranking in respect of gender equality.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL2472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>As a result of steps already taken by this government, there are now more women in employment than at any previous time. There are now 711,000 more women in employment and 157,000 fewer women unemployed than in May 2010. The proportion of businesses that are led by women is increasing. In 2012, 20% of SMEs were either run by women or by a team that was over 50% female, an increase from 14% in 2008. Unprecedented progress has also been made in equality on company boards, with the latest data showing 22.8% of FTSE 100 Directors are now female, up from 12.5% in February 2011.</p><p> </p><p>The government continues to bring forward a range of measures to further improve equality between men and women in the workplace: a new system of shared parental leave will be implemented from April 2015, a significant step towards changing workplace culture; and almost 2m families will benefit from new tax free childcare scheme from autumn 2015, worth up to £2,000 per child.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Garden of Frognal question first answered 11/11/2014 14:08:01 answering member 3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick