Correct me if I am wrong but I thought we were awarded equal pay years ago

I am deffinately in the twilight zone eh???

What jobs do men get paid more for? Everytime I ask ....nobody can tell me

Isn't there secrecy in professional areas like law and finance?

Footballers

However, female models almost always get paid more than male models.

The OP must mean this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11446650

http://www.accountancyage.com/...ccountants-paid-less

Here is an example

like all things Marge, there are always gaping holes in any legislation 

it will be interesting to see if there really will be equal pay for women 

Quote: 

The Act will also stop employers using pay secrecy clauses to prevent employees discussing their own pay, which means men and women can compare pay.

But the Act will not make employers reveal how much they pay men compared with women, as had been planned by the Labour government.

Some campaigners argued that this revision undermined the new legislation.

 

So, not much use for gender equality then. All they need is for men to keep schtum! 

The Equality Act which came into force today doesn't specifically enforce equal pay for women from today. Carnelian's link above to a BBC report - this report says:

The Act will also stop employers using pay secrecy clauses to prevent employees discussing their own pay, which means men and women can compare pay.

But the Act will not make employers reveal how much they pay men compared with women, as had been planned by the Labour government.

This link to the BBC goes into more detail of the Act.
The segment on pay secrecy says:

Many contracts of employment contain clauses which prevent employees from discussing their pay or bonuses.

It was initially proposed to ban secrecy clauses altogether. In seeking to justify the proposed ban, the then Equalities Minister, Harriet Harman, said that official figures show that whilst the gender pay gap has been narrowing over recent years, it still remains that for every pound a man earns, a woman earns just 87 pence.

Female part-time workers earn as much as 40% less than their full-time male counterparts.

The new law will make these types of clauses unenforceable (but not ban them altogether), and protect an individual from victimisation if action is taken against them for discussing their pay with their colleagues.

It is hoped that increased transparency in pay will narrow the gap further.

 

Does this mean that female workers earn for example

Male FT 35 hrs £25,000
Female PT 25 hr £17850

A simple pro rata salary, 71% of FT hours, 71% of FT pay

Or

Male FT 35 hrs £25,000
Female PT 25 hrs £10715

Pro rata as above but minus another 40%

Cheers Blizz and El Loro. Farce.

That's what I thought it read as 

Is this difference in pay through all sectors? I can't see supermarkets, hotel chains, retail chains getting away with that. Are we just talking highly qualified jobs here? I ask because for the last 14 years I've been self employed and as I said earlier.....people I know complain but can't give me answers as to what jobs these are.

This is a link to a report from the Office of National Statistics looking at the gender pay gap. It was published in November last year so is reasonably current.

This is probably the closest we are going to find to an authoritative paper on this in this country, so is worth studying, but it is too long to copy it here.

Wonder why male footballers get paid more than female footballers...

Blimey!

I work in the much maligned public sector and whilst it could be argued that men can progress further more quickly in certain parts, equal pay is never an issue!

You might want to have a look at this article from April 

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/soci...f-birmingham-council

Blood and sand DDTWID

Clearly I live in a bubble

Scary isn't it. And its not unique. 

I think I may have to go and bully a few men who are lower grades than me...

That'll learn'em

 NOOO not a good move. I think vigilantism is frowned upon in the public sector ... these days

I could be subtle..

I have my ways..