Baroness Hale: new equality laws will not close gender gap

Britain’s most senior woman judge gave warning last night that the Government’s proposed overhaul of equality laws would not close the pay or gender gap.

Baroness Hale of Richmond, who sits in the House of Lords, said that despite decades of anti-discrimimation law there was a long way to go to achieve equality.

For women in part-time work, the situation was worse and without quicker progress, the gender pay gap would not close until 2085.

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