This International Underwriting Association (IUA) market briefing will discuss results from the April 2018 Government report and highlight how margins are beginning to narrow and discover that perceptions of gender roles may be restricting progress. At this event, you will hear from Caprice Bourret about life as a model and the transition from catwalk to CEO, including her thoughts on diversity within the industry and her own organization.

The gender pay gap continues to be a topic of interest, and following an attempt to increase awareness and improve pay equality with the April 2018, Government compulsory reporting of the pay gap for organizations with over 250 employees, has the gap narrowed?

Adults are judged to be more equally responsible for financial obligations now than they were 30 years ago and with current disputes relating to gender pay, are perceptions of gender roles in the workplace restricting the support of these challenges?

This market briefing will be investigating the results from the April 2018 reports, steps to reduce the divide and asking how does the Gender Pay Gap equate in industries where men are paid less than women? However, according to a recent Fashion United report, male models are receiving up to 75 percent less than their female counterparts.

But why does this gender pay gap exist so strongly in modelling when the opposite trend is elsewhere? Is it that male models are just less popular, or could it be that fashion is still deemed a very female-dominated industry?