A bit prophetic if I say so myself, as we see the key importance of women's jobs in the current Covid-19 crisis.
"Kate
Ramsden delighted to be speaking here on International Women’s Day on behalf of
UNISON.
Because
around three quarters of our members are women, many of them in low paid roles
50 years
on from the Equal Pay Act the gender pay gap is still with us
The gap
between the pay of men and women stands at almost 12% rising to a whopping 38%
in the entertainment industry.
So why is
that? Of course there are situations where men are just paid more than women
even when they do the same job. Samira Ahmed is proof of that.
That’s
illegal and it’s wrong. And if you can afford it, it’s challengeable in court
But mainly
it’s because most of the jobs that women do are just not valued.
Yet they
are amongst the most important roles in our society – roles we just couldn’t do
without
