Well that's bleak 😔 EqualPayDay
Today marks Equal Pay Day – the last day this year women in the UK are paid to work.
In the past, women have set their out of office on to make the point that if women aren’t being paid – why should they have to work? Only two out of five of 1,000 women surveyed said they knew they were being paid the same as male colleagues. They also found that even in female dominated industries, including teaching and cleaning, women are paid up to 23% less than their counterpart males.
Sam Smethers, Fawcett Society chief executive, said that nearly 50 years on from the Equal Pay Act, equal pay for equal work is still ‘a distant dream’ for many women.‘The next government must deliver real change for women. We want tougher employer action to close the gender pay gap, flexible work from the first day in the job, better maternity and paternity pay, a new law to prevent sexual harassment and new laws to end pregnancy and maternity discrimination.
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