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Pay gaps close with evidence

Welleness gives your female employees a clear view of their whole money picture, and gives you a named action for your Equality Action Plan, with a number you can track to show it moved.

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Aggregate · anonymised
The gap behind the gap

A pay gap becomes a wealth gap

The UK gender pay gap is still around 7% for full-time employees, and it widens sharply after age 40. But pay is only the visible half. The unchecked pension, the cover never taken out, the unwritten will, those compound in the background for thirty years and never show up in your report.

Average financial confidence score today
5.92/10
52%
haven't checked their pension
63%
have no will in place
49%
have no critical illness cover
Welleness data, aggregate and anonymised
How we help

We benchmark your female employees against the national picture

Every employee who joins takes a financial health check and gets a single wellness score across six pillars, pension, protection, home, income, investing and legacy. We aggregate and anonymise those scores, then set them against UK gender pay gap and wealth gap data so you can see exactly where your organisation sits.

Baseline score by gender, age band and grade
Sector and national benchmark comparison
Pillar-level detail, where the gap actually is
Year-on-year movement you can publish
Sample Welleness employer benchmark report
Equality action plans

What's coming, and when

April 2026

Equality Action Plans open, voluntarily.

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Spring 2027

EAPs mandatory for employers with 250+ employees, subject to legislation.

April 2028

First mandatory plans published, alongside pay gap data.

The other half of the plan

Menopause is a money moment too

Equality action plans have to cover menopause support, not just pay, and menopause is exactly when financial gaps start to bite. Reduced hours, a stepped-back promotion, a career pause: each one impacts a woman's financial life.

18%
reduce their hours to cope
1 in 10
leave work due to unmanaged symptoms
7 years
average time symptoms affect work
Source: Benenden Health / HR Grapevine, 2026
Your EAP solution

Three parts, one programme

We provide data you can report on, guidance everyone can use, and regulated advice when it actually counts.

01

The data

Financial confidence scored over time, aggregate, anonymised, split by gender and cohort, and benchmarked against UK pay gap data for your sector.

your organisation's performance
02

Elle, for every employee

Unlimited guidance on pensions, protection, income and investing, in plain English, closing knowledge gaps as questions come up, at 11pm if that's when they come up.

Education and guidance
03

Advisers, employer-funded

A subscription with a set number of hours a year to message or talk to our FCA-regulated female advisers. You fund it, she chooses when to use it.

Regulated advice, when it counts
What you get

Something real to report

A named action

Financial education and access to regulated advice are recognised, evidence-based actions.

Progress you can publish

Year-on-year movement in financial confidence, by gender. A narrative for your action plan that isn't only intent.

Support when women leave the workforce

Maternity, divorce, caring, menopause, promotion. The money decisions behind those moments finally get appropriate support.

A benefit people use

Elle is unlimited and free at the point of use, and financial advisors are on hand to support, so uptake isn't gated by affordability for the employee.

Let's build your action plan

Send us your headcount and gender split and we'll show you what your first confidence report would look like.

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