To add to Polly Toynbee’s reasons for the gender pay gap: “It’s pregnancy,stupid” (whether we truly valued caring, we would fix the gender pay gap, or 15 December). For 20 years I have advised women who are sidelined then dismissed because of their pregnancy or maternity leave. Many have worked their socks off for years and are then unceremoniously dumped because they are pregnant – an inconvenient truth.
Recent Equality and Human Rights Commission research shows that this has become worse over the final 10 years,with 50000 women losing their job each year. Yet in 35% of couples the woman is the main earner and may not be the main carer – but prejudice is rarely moved by reality.
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Source: theguardian.com