Equal Pay Review

A member of WiSET is a member of the equal pay review board at the University

  • The number of female professorial staff in the Engineering, Science and Maths is slowly increasing.
  • 5 of the 8 new Deans are women (2010).
  • The University completed its second equal pay review in 2007 and this showed that that the equal pay gap for the Education. Research and Enterprise career pathway reduced from 14% in 2005 to 6%
  • Women academics in FESM have risen from 26 to 37 between 2004-7 (corresponding to a rise from 6% to 8% in terms of the overall proportion of women academic staff in the Faculty)
  • In a Times Higher Educational Supplement article on equal pay in Universities, the University of Southampton had the smallest pay gap of all the Russell Group Universities
  • Reporting processes and data extraction from our existing system is improving to give us better indicators of where issues lie.

Plans for the future:

  • The Gender Equality Scheme outlines the steps the University will take to reduce the gender pay gap.
  • The Women in SET group is participating in the University’s plans to go for Athena Swan Silver”