‘Just not good enough’ | Today is the day of the year when women stop working for free

Today is Women’s Pay Day – the day in every year in which women stop working for free when compared with the salary of the average working man. That means that, due to underpayment, women work for free for nearly two months of every year – a shocking number that adds up to a full free year of work at an alarming rate.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has analysed numbers from the ONS and its own research, and found that the current gender pay gap (GPG) sits at about 15% in the UK and is the widest for older women and women in the South East of the country. In fact, women aged 50-59 have the highest pay gap at 20.8% and in the South East, it sits at 17.9%, meaning that a 50-year-old worker in the South East could be working for free up till the third week of March.