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Today's Equal Pay Day. Women and men still disagree about who has more economic opportunities

Jessica Thompson, 47, said she earned $65,000 a year as a senior sales manager in Rockford, Illinois, while a male colleague with similar credentials had earned $87,000.

Fortune

The gender pay gap looks different depending where you are on the income ladder

Despite decades of progress, the gender pay gap remains a persistent feature of the UK labour market. According to women’s rights charity the Fawcett Society, November 22 marked Equal Pay Day 2025 – the day when women effectively stop getting paid due to the wage gap with men.

The Conversation

UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers, analysis shows

ONS data shows they are working for free from 1 September, almost three months earlier than Equal Pay Day for all women

The Guardian - UK

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'Unacceptable': closing gender pay gap still hard work

Women are working 50 days past the end of the financial year to earn the same as men, showing the need for further action from employers on the gender pay gap.

AAP

Equal Pay Day to arrive two days early thanks to increasing gender pay gap, says charity

Equal Pay Day marks the point in the year when women stop being paid, compared to men

Evening Standard

Gender pay gap increasing by £2.33 a month - with women taking home £560 less than men

New figures released by women’s rights charity the Fawcett Society to mark Equal Pay Day today shows that the shameful difference in after-tax earnings is up from £536 a month last year to £564 now

Daily Mirror

Gender pay gap wider for minority ethnic women, Labour finds

Analysis of ONS data shows Black African women earn 26% less than men; Bangladeshi women 28% and Pakistani women 31%

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Fact-check: Sen. Tammy Duckworth over-hypes specifics of gender pay gap study

The annual Equal Pay Day Coalition study does not separate out white women, and does not examine the same professions nor the qualifications of either gender. The U.S. senator joins a growing number of Democratic politicians who have incorrectly cited the national study of the gender pay gap to…

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden moving to narrow gender pay gap for federal workers

The White House is marking Equal Pay Day by taking new steps aimed at ending the gender pay gap for federal workers and contractors

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