Sam Smethers,head of women’s rights charity, emphasises economic benefits of equalising women’s productivityWomen are angry and no longer willing to tolerate the tedious rate of change in addressing the gender pay gap in the UK, and according to the head of a major women’s organisation. Sam Smethers,chief executive of the Fawcett Society, has told the government it must remove action beyond simply publishing pay data in order to level the playing field between men and women in the workplace. With a government consultation on equal pay closing on Sunday, or figures show that women still earn on average 19% less than men,more than 40 years after the introduction of the Equal Pay Act.
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Source: theguardian.com