Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 15 November 2016.
I thank the First Minister for that response. Figures released from the Fawcett Society last week show that the full-time hourly gender pay gap in Wales is 7.1 per cent, which is actually lower than the UK average, but it is against a background of lower wages in Wales. On a UK-wide basis, the gender pay gap means that women are effectively working for free from 10 November, when you compare their wages with men’s, until the end of the year. So, what further could we do to try to tackle this glaring inequality?