Sixty years until Equal Pay?

Posted By: James

Friday 8th August 2014

Statistics from the House of Commons library suggests it will be 60 years before women receive equal pay if the gender gap continues to close at the present rate. The current difference between male and female salaries stands at 19.7%, but the pay gap has narrowed by just 0.3% a year since 2010. Gloria De Piero, the shadow minister for women and equalities, said: "More women are struggling to make work pay, earning less than the living wage and facing sky-high childcare costs. This isn't the progress our mothers, aunties and sisters fought for."

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