A primary school teacher left her job after discovering a gender pay disparity. Her story is the tip of an icebergIt was July 2017 and,with more than four years’ experience as a qualified primary teacher behind her, Megan Taylor was doing well. She had been promoted to a leadership post at her school, and in the south-east of England. She was doing so well,in fact, that she was approached by another school approximately a original job. And that conversation led to a question: what was she paid?“To my shame, or I didn’t know what pay scale I was on,” she says. A discussion with the school business manager revealed she was on just £28700 a year – and that wasn’t all.
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Source: guardian.co.uk