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"Women's no pay day" aims to draw attention to the fact that, on average, women earn 80 per cent of what men earn
Today has been declared women’s No-Pay day. Equality campaign and unions are highlighting the fact that the average women working full time is paid only 80% of what her male counterpart earns per hour. It means that when you compare pal packets, the average women effectively works for nothing from today until the end of the year. Our money reporter B. Z. had been asked about with campaigners.
It’s the height of rush hour in central London and adds commute pay for the office, campaighers are asked out handing out leaflets the highlight the gender pay gain which persist despite the fact that the equal pay ates was introduced 30 years ago. Now, the forces in society which campaigned re quality and the union unicent have joined forces for demands strong action from government. They say that action on equal pay is so slow that it would take 80 years for women’s pay to catch up with men’s pay unless something is done. Official statistics show that the average full time working women earn 17% less per hour than her male equivalents. I mean both women are losing out massively earning 4 thousands pounds less per year than men. Basically working for nothing from today until the end of the year. People I’ve been talking to are not impressed.
I think it really does depend on which industry you are in, oh yeah, I think it’s disgusting. I think at some times this could be changed.
Well, personally, perform was not a man and she should be paid equally.
But it’s not.
No, it should be.
Our ages, yeah, but when we are always being a man, I’ve never known they always have to improve themselves a little bit more.
Well, joining the now are brown win n. from U. and C. from the forces society. That was just the thought first. If the problem that many women just do different kinds of works remain part time,
that’s possible for women to concentrate on different kinds of professions, but we’ve under valued those professions for a very long time. It’s man naturally that would play call mechanically and repay the cost of children. So we need again to address that caon valuation of women’s works.
And where women do do the same job as men, why don’t they demand the equal pay, the rule is there to make sure **.
The law is that, but one thing is that they don’t necessarily know that they’ve been paid unequally because you got a very pay system. It’s very difficult to find out whether they’ve been paid equally. The second reason is that they know that those cases have an enormous emothional penalty in many many years. And they know that they ** is their duty. The penalty is too big.
F. given more than what we’ve heard here, what do you think the government needs to do because this situation hasn’t even improved did not have it.
It’s ** could employ it, it’s employer’s legal responsibility to pay these employees she would require to order their paces distances we could be showed off the
And Catherine said these cases often take long time, that’s the case, isn’t it? That is the case * has experienced 14 years ago we started to bring two women to which would deny access to pensions at their part time, many of those cases are up to be resolved and women have naturally died waiting for the case to be concluded.
OK, thank you very much for today’s talking to us, while later today, campaigners will be meeting with the minister four women Harris Harmen and there will be crashing on her to revive and strengthen the legislation
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