Last year, the largest increase in the gender pay gap was among employees aged 30 to 39 years, where it increased from 2.3% to 4.7%, official figures show.
Average age of first birth is now 31. So, and?
Last year, the largest increase in the gender pay gap was among employees aged 30 to 39 years, where it increased from 2.3% to 4.7%, official figures show.
Average age of first birth is now 31. So, and?
32% of young women said their hopes for the future had worsened over the last 12 months, compared with 25% of young men
Young women are right. Your future will be worse.
Pippa Rawlinson, 27, a single mother living in Bournemouth, said her legal career had been held back as a result of systems that did not provide sufficient, affordable childcare to allow her to compete for work on a level playing field with men, who could often work longer hours as they didn’t have children to look after.
Probably should have thought of that before dropping your knickers.
She said the overall system was sexist. “It is essential that we have access to affordable childcare with good hours. [Options] are few and far between. They really restrict young women’s ability to work. We want to work. I love my job. I love the career I’m in.”
The vast majority of trainee solicitors are young women, that’s why it doesn’t pay very well. But this system is “sexist”.
@Steve: “The vast majority of trainee solicitors are young women, that’s why it doesn’t pay very well. ”
50 years ago the vast majority of trainee solicitors were men, and they didn’t get paid at all. Sod all to do with sexism, just a hangover of the old guild system in need of reform. These days a lot of junior solicitor tasks can be automated by AI so the profession is facing a shake up whether it wants it or not.
Arthur – most solicitors could be replaced by a Roomba with knives taped to it.
It is essential that we have access to affordable childcare with good hours.
A market opportunity there. Why isn’t the market supplying? The demand is clearly there.
Ah. Define “affordable”.
Affordable childcare means highly regulated childcare heavily subsidised by the taxpayer. The modern mother sees dependence on the state as preferable to dependence on hubby or daddy.
I made the mistake of idly following the link to the Guardian. Jeez, the cognative dissonance is overwhelming.
British Muslims deserve safety – “we feel hated”
Well, maybe try *not* celebrating and cheering on your fellows genocidally slaughtering their neighbours. People *ACTIVELY* go *OUT* of their way to slaughter others, and wonder out loud why there may possibly be maybe bad feeling towards them.
I’m off to take my blood pressure tablets.
The woman quoted in the Grauniad finds it difficult to compete with men who are working more than two more hours per day than herself. Her gender pay gap should be over 20%! Presumably there are more non-Grauniad-reading women who are working a full day if the gender gap is only 7.7%
Affordable means “Paid for by somebody else.”
john77 – why should she be penalised for the misogynistic consequences of her decision to become a trainee solicitor in Bournemouth in her late 20’s whilst simultaneously raising a child in a fatherless home, bigot?
Have you even *seen* Erin Brockovich, you neanderthal?
The answer to the problem is to provide old (likely single) women with better technological intervention so they can have kids when they are too clapped out to look after them.
https://capx.co/to-fix-the-worlds-birth-dearth-we-need-to-think-big/
No surprise that the Gates’ are involved in this further perversion of the nuclear family.