January 2018: A Step in the Right Direction

It seems that 2018 might well turn out to be the year that gender equality finally gets the attention it deserves. In April last year, news broke in the UK that the government would require all public, private and voluntary sector firms that employ 250 or more employees to publish their gender pay gaps—currently 18 percent for all workers and 9.4 percent for full-time staff—by April 2018, with the view to highlighting and hopefully rectifying firms’ salary disparities. 

Then on January 8 this y