The Government Equalities Office has published further guidance on The Think, Act, Report campaign which aims to encourage businesses, voluntarily, to identify any issues around gender equality, take action to fix those issues and report on how the business ensures gender equality. The Think, Act, Report ​framework suggests organisations ​​should particularly consider analysing and reporting one or more of three types of information: (i) policy and narrative measures to provide useful contextual information; (ii) representation measures: which explain the composition and structure of the workforce; and (iii) pay measures: which directly capture the pay differences between men and women, and also reflect wider pay and benefits. Examples of each of the measures are provided and with the Government consulting on regulations making gender pay gap reporting mandatory for large organisations from 2016, employers may wish to consider adopting the approach now. 

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