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WOMEN are still paid between a third and fifth less than men for the same work, the European TUC warned today.
The organisation compared wages for jobs with similar skills in Germany and Romania.
In each case it looked at the wages of manufacturing workers of the “same age, working full time with a permanent contract in a middle-sized company for a year,” with case studies provided by affiliate IndustriALL Europe including women working in production of household appliances and men working in car manufacturing.
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers
