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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Several years after this campaign began, it's still a rip-off


Today is Women's No Pay Day. Women working full-time in the UK get paid 17% less than men. As this is equivalent to women working the last two months of the year for nothing, the Fawcett Society have calculated that today marks women’s no pay day. From today until the end of the year many women are effectively working for free, their labour valued at far less than that of a comparable male employee.

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