{"id":255,"date":"2018-08-22T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/?p=255"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:05:41","slug":"beyond-pay-gaps-inequality-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/beyond-pay-gaps-inequality-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond pay gaps: Inequality at work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By the researchers of the \u201cEarnings gaps and inequality at work\u201d project, Bristol Business School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 25 May 2018, UWE Economics hosted an expert workshop on \u2018Beyond Pay Gaps: Inequality at Work\u2019. Six experts were invited to share their reflections, based on their own research, on two questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) What is the nature of inequality at work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Is the pay gap an adequate indicator? If not, how can we improve our assessments of inequality at work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key aim was to foster a discussion on how to conceptualise and study inequality at work. In an earlier blog entry<\/a> the workshop organisers\u2019 provided a response to UWE\u2019s reporting on the gender pay gap, which highlighted the fact that some progression on the gender pay gap is not in itself a sign of overall success. There are aspects of inequality at work that are captured by pay indicators and nonetheless merit our attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The morning session of the workshop focused on conceptualisations of inequality at work and featured the presentations of three distinguished scholars of labour and inequality. Dr Alessandra Mezzadri (SOAS University of London) drew on her long-standing research on the garment industry in India to highlight patterns of inequality and gender exploitation. Professor Bridget O\u2019Laughlin (Institute of Social Studies) reflected on the concepts of Marx\u2019s political economy framework as well as its conceptual gaps to study inequality at work. Professor Harriet Bradley (UWE Bristol) illustrated how a three-part conceptual framework based on production, reproduction and consumption can be used to conceptualise gender inequality at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the afternoon session, three distinguished academics on gender, organisation and inequality presented on methodological approaches to study inequality at work. Dr Hannah Bargawi (SOAS University of London) discussed how a pyramid-shaped understanding of inequality at work can guide us through moving our focus between different levels of inequality. Dr Olivier Ratle (UWE Bristol) presented the qualitative methods used to study early career academics\u2019 experience of work. Dr Vanda Papafilippou (UWE Bristol) described a range of methods from the field of sociology of education to study the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presentations generated rich discussions on the conceptualisations of social reproduction, the complexity of inequality and the relations between the material and the cultural. The participants agreed that research on these themes is both timely and needed. Furthermore, a podcast series on \u2018Feminism, Gender and the Economy\u2019 featuring two interviews with workshop speakers will be launched in 2018\/2019 academic year. Watch this space for the upcoming podcast series!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This workshop was funded by UWE Bristol. The workshop\u2019s organisers are grateful to all participants for their thoughtful contributions and productive discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the researchers of the \u201cEarnings gaps and inequality at work\u201d project, Bristol Business School. On 25 May 2018, UWE Economics hosted an expert workshop on \u2018Beyond Pay Gaps: Inequality at Work\u2019. Six experts were invited to share their reflections, based on their own research, on two questions: 1) What is the nature of inequality at … Continue reading “Beyond pay gaps: Inequality at work”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/dragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}