{"id":377,"date":"2019-10-02T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T09:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/?p=377"},"modified":"2019-10-02T10:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T09:40:57","slug":"about-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2019\/10\/02\/about-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"About Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-369\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/09\/UCU1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/09\/UCU1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/files\/2019\/09\/UCU1.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Women in HE earn on average 15.1% less than men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Black academic staff earn 12-13% less than white colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Disabled people in HE earn 8.7% less than non-disabled colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">UCU is calling for nationally-agreed action for HE institutions to close the gender pay gap and to specifically address the ethnic pay gap, taking account of the ways in which intersectionality affects pay and grading. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">For more information see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucu.org.uk\/media\/10185\/UCUBAN54-HE-pay-claim-2019-20\/pdf\/UCUBAN54.pdf\">Branch Action Notice<\/a>, p. 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Kent UCU urges you to vote <b>YES<\/b> to action and <b>YES<\/b> to action short of a strike in both ballots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">TWO BALLOTS \u2022 ONE FUTURE \u2022 BE THE <\/span>XX<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Sent on behalf of Kent UCU Committee &amp; Reps<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women in HE earn on average 15.1% less than men. Black academic staff earn 12-13% less than white colleagues. Disabled people in HE earn 8.7% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/2019\/10\/02\/about-equality\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155769],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ucuuok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}