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As leading lights of the sector are named among the UK’s Top 50 Employers for Women, we look at what the profession is doing right on gender equality – and why there’s still more to do.
The UK’s biggest construction contractor, Balfour Beatty, has revealed that its gender pay gap widened over the last 12 months. Balfour’s gender pay gap
When Taylor Wimpey appointed its first female chief executive in February, it sparked headlines. Jennie Daly, the group’s operations director, will be the
The purpose of legislation that requires businesses with a headcount of 250 people or more to disclose gender pay gap data is not to enforce an annual round of self-flagellation. The transparency that gathering and publishing information provides aims at driving change. Yet the response of some elite firms to the first year of mandatory reporting, in 2018, was to meet the letter, but not the spirit, of the law. While equity partnership in such firms is the glittering prize that many junior lawyers aim for, some firms excluded partner earnings from their first report. Slaughter and May, for ex...