Women: Wages Debate
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Baroness Turner of Camden
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(10 years, 5 months ago)
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Baroness Northover
My noble friend is right to highlight the different areas that men and women often work in. There is encouraging news in that the gender pay gap has narrowed and is now close to zero for full-time employees under the age of 40. However, you start to see a differential as you move into the older cohorts. That is to do with the areas that people work in and the fact that many more women are working part-time. The median hourly wage for part-time workers is £8.29 as opposed to £13.03 for full-time workers.
Baroness Turner of Camden (Lab)
How many prosecutions have taken place for non-payment of the minimum wage? I ask that because it would be mostly women who were affected among the low-paid workers in this country.
Baroness Northover
That is a very interesting point. I shall get further details.