Harriet Harperson: Pay gap disclosure 'will boost economic recovery'

Submitted by Broadsword on Mon, 2009-04-27 14:00

Article here.

"Requiring firms to reveal the "pay gap" between their male and female staff will help, not hinder, Britain's recovery from recession, Equalities Minister Harriet Harman insisted today.
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"The economies of the future that will prosper are the ones which are not blinkered, held back by old-fashioned hierarchies, by a sense of women knowing their place, by overlooking the talents and abilities of people on the basis of the colour of their skin," she told reporters.

"When times are difficult, actually fairness is at a premium and it does not cost anything to be fair. It is part of helping the economy prosper for the future by tackling what its market failure because it is market failure to treat people unfairly for any reason.

"We don't see this as anti-competitiveness - it actually underpins competitiveness.

"Equality and opportunity underpins a meritocracy. This does not hold business back, this helps business."

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"The economies of the future that will prosper are the ones which are not blinkered, held back by old-fashioned hierarchies, by a sense of women knowing their place, by overlooking the talents and abilities of people on the basis of the colour of their skin," she told reporters.

That's rich coming from someone who's put in place some of the most racist and sexist policies the world has ever seen!

Evan AKA X-TRNL
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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2009-04-28 16:40

Considering the common finding that women, in identical jobs as men, tend to earn a couple percent more, I wonder if that truth will actually come out, or if the "equality" program will quietly be dropped when it doesn't prop-up politically-correct orthodox preconceptions.

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Submitted by Ragtime on Wed, 2009-04-29 16:39