Commenting on Closing the Gender Pay Gap, a new report from the TUC (http://www.tuc.org.uk/genderpaygap), Kat Banyard, Campaigns Officer at the Fawcett Society said:

"The gender pay gap is a national scandal. At every level in UK workplaces women are being paid less than men. The paucity of senior flexible roles and long working hours culture shuts women out of the boardroom and forces them into lower paid, lower status jobs when they have children. The result? Motherhood carries a penalty and poverty has a female face.

This Government has a historic opportunity to end pay discrimination with preventative and remedial measures in the Single Equality Act. As a basic first step to rooting out inequality, all companies should be required to conduct pay audits. UK women cannot afford to wait any longer. We need action from Government now."

… Return to the top of this page
… Retun to Index of Notices and Press Releases
… Return to home page