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Women will effectively work for free for the rest of the year from today
Models of men and women on a pile of coins and bank notes

WOMEN will effectively work for free for the rest of the year from today.

The calculation, based on mean full-time pay, was published in a report by the Fawcett Society to mark Equal Pay Day.

It estimates that the current full-time pay gap stands at 11.3 per cent — up by 0.6 per cent on last year.

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