BRITISH GENDER GAP
EasyJet CE takes equality pay cut
London — EasyJet’s newly hired CEO is taking a pay cut to match the salary of his predecessor, Carolyn McCall, as the discount airline joins UK-wide efforts to reduce the national gender gap in remuneration. Johan Lundgren’s salary, originally set at £740,000, will be reduced 4.6% to the £706,000 earned by McCall last year, before she left to run UK broadcaster ITV, the carrier said in a statement on Monday. EasyJet will also seek to beat a target of ensuring that 20% of new pilots are women by 2020, Lundgren said. UK government data show that men out-earn women at every level across industries, with the gap widest in skilled trades, according to figures released this month. EasyJet came under fire after it said there was a 51.7% difference between men and women, driven by the gender imbalance among its pilots, its highest-paid position. Only 5% of the carrier’s flight-deck crew are women, though that proportion is higher than the industry average of 4%, the company said. "At EasyJe...
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