Walkinshaw Group is a leading design, engineering and manufacturing company with significant operations in the automotive industry, which is traditionally very heavily male dominated.
Our data therefore returns a low percentage of female employees (approximately 16% of the workforce versus 28% in the comparison industry workforce) which makes it harder to make direct comparisons of pay between genders. We’ve had a challenging year for recruitment such that gender is not a consideration in who is recruited but rather we focus on worker attributes, skills and experience. Our recent experience is that more men than women are applying for our roles.
Our male to female ratio is still overwhelmingly male however our overall female workforce has doubled year on year (16% in 2022-23 versus 8% in 2021-22) reflecting success in our efforts to recruit more females into the business. Our data also shows that we now have more females in positions of higher management which sees their mean (average) pay rate increase. We will continue our efforts to improve female participation in the coming years with a key focus on female participation in below manager roles.