Gender pay gap 'worse in London'
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The average pay gap between women and men in London is far worse than elsewhere in the UK, it has been confirmed.
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Sex equality will take generations to achieve at the current 'painfully slow' rate of progress, the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said today in a final report before being wound up by the government after more than 30 years fighting gender bias across British society.
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Women of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Caribbean descent still face poor work prospects despite forging ahead in schools, a report finds.
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Home buyers in England face the biggest affordability gaps in South West and London, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says.
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LONDON, Sep 1 (IPS) - The state of reproductive health is getting worse   in several African countries, a new 'report card'  prepared for a London  meet reveals.
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Recruiting more male teachers is not the answer to the gender gap in educational achievement, a report says.
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Women priests are given the worst  positions in the Church of England even though they make up  half of all newly ordained ministers, research published on  Sunday said.
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WASHINGTON -- Women in Vermont are better off economically and socially than women anywhere else in the country, and women in Mississippi are worst off, says a study released Tuesday.
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Sometimes it&#39;s hard to be a woman: break through the glass ceiling, and you find yourself on the edge of a glass cliff. Alex Haslam, a social psychologist at Exeter University, told the British Association
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15,000 officers expected to gather in London to protest again government's refusal to honour 2.5% pay rise
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Women with young children are the most discriminated-against at work, a report will suggest later.
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One of the most senior women bankers to work in the City of London yesterday saw her record Â£7.5m sex discrimination claim thrown out by an employment tribunal.
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Businesswomen make up a growing percentage of the global workforce but are still under-represented in the boardroom.  With just 117 women among the 1,130 directors of the FTSE 100 companies, according to a recent survey (January 2007) by Cranfield University, it would need almost a fourfold increase in female representation to achieve gender equality.
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Many people believe Britain is a worse place to live than 20 years ago, a BBC poll suggests.
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Â· Chinese most exposed to displacement for games Â· 1,000 Londoners may have to move, says report
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Women are underrepresented in public life and face financial penalties for starting a family, a new study has claimed.
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The gap between rich and poor workers in the UK is growing, according to a survey which found top bosses' pay rising nearly 10 times as fast as that of the average employee.