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Inequality in the workplace, is discrimination still prevalent in the UK workforce?

One of the key priorities in the UK today is to tackle the inequalities within the workplace.  Organisations and individuals tend to focus more on gender inequality against women in areas such as leadership positions and pay.  This issue often hits the media headlines and has encouraged initiatives such as the FTSE 100 boardroom recruitment (now extended to the FTSE 350) to voluntarily employ 33% of women to boardroom CEO positions by 2020.  Thus far, this has not been successful and further work and discussions have been encouraged to ensure that the target and the issues have been met. We have also seen that the government have requested that large organisations including public sectors with over 250 employees must publish their gender and bonus gaps .  This resulted in the flogging of the BBC, who when publishing their figures in 2017 showed an extremely large disproportionate gender gap, with two thirds of male employees being paid over £150,000 compared with one third of women