Women earn 17% less than men for doing the same job.
British women will be working unpaid for the rest of the year. That is according to the Fawcett Society, as they launch their ‘Women’s No Pay Day’, which calls attention to the fact that men are paid 17% more per hour than women for doing the same job. This, they say, amounts to women effectively being paid nothing from now until the end of the calendar year. With talk of a Single Equality Bill in the air, is the Government going to address this inequality? And with flexible working and extended maternity leave being championed for women but not for men, will the traditional figure of the male primary breadwinner remain?
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