Michelle DoustThis time next week, on Thursday 7 November, will be Equal Pay Day. This is the day when women working full-time effectively stop being paid for the year because they still earn, on average, 15 per cent less per hour than men.
Even worse, if there was an Equal Pay Day for working women over the age of 50, it would have been three weeks ago on 10 October. This is because the gender pay gap for women in their fifties is 22.5 per cent – the widest gender pay gap of any age group.
