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Widening gender pay gap will take a century to close
by Felicity Collier

THE gender pay gap has actually got wider for some women and will now take 100 years to close, an equality think tank warns today.

Younger women are now seeing their pay fall behind that of men, the Fawcett Society said as it warned that society is “going backwards.”

Last year saw the difference between women’s and men’s median hourly earnings — across both full and part time — increase by 0.2 per cent to 18.4 per cent.

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