Gender Pay Gap Bot Identifies Brands That Tweet About International Women’s Day And Pay Women Less Than Men
The target list included UK Revenues and Customs, other government departments and agencies as well as Barclays Bank and British Transport Police. There were also dozens of schools, charities, councils and universities.
The bot used publicly accessible information from a government database, which records differences in pay between men & women in UK companies with over 250 employees.
The bot retweeted the tweets of one of these companies with #IWD2022, along with data about their gender pay gap.
Most of the bots’ retweets showed that women’s hourly median earnings were lower than those of their male counterparts — sometimes by around a third.
However, it was really interesting to see how organisations attempted to evade detection.
Newman University in Birmingham posted about “celebrating women’s achievements everywhere today” and the bot retweeted the helpful note: “In the organisation, women’s median hoursly pay is 18.6 percent lower than that of men.”
The university removed the tweet and reposted it without the #IWD2022 hashtag.
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