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Question by:
Nicky Gavron
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Meeting date:
16 November 2017
: This is on the maternity pay gap. It is on the maternity employment rate, a supplementary question. We talked about the gender pay gap and I now want to talk about the motherhood pay gap. From the moment you become a mother and enter the workplace in this country you are disadvantaged. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has produced some national research, not London research, which shows that a woman aged 42 in full-time employment is facing a pay penalty for being a mother of 11% over the lifetime of her job. She is always going to get about...