We start with the gender pay gap because campaigners here in the uk are calling today equal pay day. They calculate that from today, because of the pay gap with men, women are effectively working for free for the rest of the year. The Fawcett Society which does the calculations each year says there has been a slight improvement on 2018. But female full time workers earn on average 13 less than their male counterparts. There is high level support for change. A group of 100 top uk businesswomen including former royal mail boss dame moya greene, Dame Minouche shafik the favourite to take over at the bank of england and glaxosmithkline boss Emma Walmsley want a change in the law to give women the right to see how much male colleagues are earning. The gender pay gap is a lot worse in many other parts of the world women are paid 32 less than men on average according to pay data gathered by the World Economic forum across 149 countries. But campaigners here in the uk have long argued there ne
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