After centuries of misogyny, women deserve reparations – but how much are they owed?

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'Asking the question isn’t merely a demand for financial compensation; it’s a moral reckoning. A demand for an acknowledgement of harm. Still, as Madonna noted, “we are living in a material world, and I am a material girl”. So let’s get down to the business of sums.

How far do we go back to calculate women’s losses?
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Now the Church of England has promised £100m in reparations for slavery. Project Spire will not give money to direct descendants of those who were enslaved, however, but to improving opportunities for communities affected by slavery.
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...Divided by the 35 million women in the UK today, this would give us each a lump sum of £20,000. And that’s before you begin calculating the financial oppression that followed in the 20th century and beyond.

Bateman poses a further question: the gender wage gap for full-time employees now hovers near 7% – do men today owe women 3.5% of their earnings?'