Our gender pay gap figures remains broadly similar to those reported in previous years. We employ a largely male-dominated workforce and this gender imbalance continues to be reflective of our industry sector as a whole. Only 10.4% of engineering roles in the UK are filled by women (Wise statistics, 2021) and females remain under-represented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) subjects. RPTL remains committed to attracting and retaining females into our business, however, as for other similar organisations in our sector, this continues to be challenging.
As in the previous year, in April 2021 RPTL was still taking a number of actions to maintain financial stability and preserve jobs, as we continued to manage through the Coronavirus pandemic. It should be noted that these actions have, once again, distorted our gender pay gap reporting due to a significant proportion of our workforce, both male and female, being excluded from the calculations. These necessary exclusions, in line with reporting requirements, make comparisons with previous years difficult.
Due to the size of RPTL (fewer than 250 employees), small changes to the employee group included in the reporting, whether through leavers or joiners or through reporting requirements, can have a significant and disproportionate impact on our gender pay gap.
