equal pay Articles

Today, I am bringing a ten minute rule bill on equal pay to parliament. The bill asks for implementation of Section 78 of the 2010 Equalities Act, which would place a duty on companies with over 250 employees to publish their figures on the pay gap between the men and...

Labour must shift the centre-ground once again In 2007 I debated in favour of the statement: ‘No feminist should vote Conservative’; I was arguing against the author and now former Conservative member of parliament Louise Mensch, still a parliamentary candidate then....

Barbara Castle could have been Britain’s first female prime minister. Born Barbara Betts in 1910 in Pontefract, her mother was a Labour councillor, her father a tax inspector. She later moved to Bradford, where she attended the girls’ grammar school, before attending...

The gender pay gap in Britain is proving hard to eradicate. Over 40 years after the Equal Pay Act came into force Britain has one of the highest gender pay gaps in the European Union. In 2012 women earned on average less than 18.6 per cent less per hour than men with...