Women in Britain to achieve parity in salary in 53 years

In an interesting feature yesterday, Al Hayat newspaper highlighted some ‎findings of a study conducted by the leading international audit firm, Deloitte, ‎which estimated the margin of difference in hourly wages of men against women ‎at 9.4% in Britain (equivalent to GBP1.30). This margin however shrinks by 2.5p ‎every year, which is the annual rate realized by British women in their quest to ‎reduce the gender pay gap in jobs equally shared by both sexes. But despite ‎promises by the current government to achieve full equality in wages over the ‎course of 10 years, Al Hayat went on to say, yet a simple calculation of the ‎differences clearly shows that said commitment cannot be met before the year ‎‎2069. In conclusion, Al Hayat pointed out that the British government has went ‎as far to enforce major establishments to publish a list of wage differences ‎between their men and women staff as of next April, in an intention to "unnerve" ‎companies that pay men more than women in an attempt to achieve equal pay ‎between the sexes. (Al Hayat, Setember 30, 2016)‎

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