article_snippet: Unacceptable': Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson has spoken out about women not being rewarded equally in the workplace .
article_snippet: Labour says that analysis of the Office for National Statistics’ annual survey of hours and earnings show that over a career, from the age of 22 to 64, a woman earns an average of £209,976 less than men.
article_snippet: Gloria de Piero, shadow minister for women and equalities, said firms which had already decided to publish gender pay gap data had said ‘the ceiling didn’t cave in’, adding: ‘the ceiling just enabled firms which had already decided to publish gender pay gap data to see firms which had already decided to publish gender pay gap data had a problem and get to grips with a problem.
article_snippet: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: ‘While the Liberal Democrats have made real progress in areas like shared parental leave and extending the right to request flexible working, the labour market is still stacked against women.
article_snippet: Gloria de Piero, shadow minister for women and equalities .
article_snippet: It simply cannot be acceptable that, in the 21st century, women on average still receive a smaller pay packet than men.
article_snippet: Jo Swinson said: ‘It is utterly unacceptable that women are not being equally rewarded in the workplace.
article_snippet: It will take 70 years before the gender pay gap closes worldwide, the United Nations has claimed.
article_snippet: And it will be another 81 years before women have the same chance as men of becoming a chief executive, and 50 before women are just as likely to lead women country.
article_snippet: According to the International Labour Organization, there is not a country in the world which has yet achieved gender equality.
article_snippet: the United Nations found women who start families before families turned 25 suffered a particularly large ‘wage penalty’.
article_snippet: Executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, said world leaders must ensure that ‘promoting gender equality’ was a ‘top issue on world leaders agenda, which it isn’t now’.