Hello and welcome to the ESG Fitness Podcast. Today is part two of the productivity theme, I guess.

In part one, I spoke about the importance of thinking your input in terms of hours worked or hours spent working in relation to your output in terms of

work actually done and that is essentially what productivity is it also links to one of the

reasons so many people under charge especially especially women. So most of us have heard about the gender

pay gap and around the time of the equal pay day, which was this year, the 20th of November, I think,

so the day in the year which women effectively work for free for the rest of the year compared

to men.

So there's about a 20% gender pay gap, as in women get paid 20% less to do the same work or the

same job as a man.

I wanted to see if the gender pay gap still exists,

existed in self-employed women and surprisingly it does and in fact it's over twice as big.

So self-employed men charge on average 43% more than self-employed women. That's bad,

isn't it? That's really, really bad. So the gender pay gap in employed people is about 17%. So I said 20%, it's actually 17%.

But the self-employed gender pay gap, 43%.

43%.

That's bad. That's really, really bad.

Anyway, I'm not, I'm not going off topic.

I'm not going on a feminist rampage here.

But one of the reasons a lot of people under charge is that they charge for their time, not their value.

This is men and women.

So you should be charging for your value, not for your time.

And obviously, your value does not go down if you're a woman.

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