Britain's biggest companies have less than a week to publish their gender pay gap figures, but just over two-thirds of companies have done so.
With days to go until the 4 April deadline, over 6,000 companies have disclosed the difference between what they pay male and female employees.
Companies who fail to provide their data by next week will face legal action, the government has confirmed.
Regular readers of this Blog will know that I am 100% in favour of equitable and evenhanded behaviour when dealing with employment matters.
Personally, I believe that there will be few, clearcut situations where women are being paid less than men - where identical circumstances obtain. Far too often, the career interrupted by years of childcare is not brokered into the situation.
It is manifestly wrong for male employees to suffer because of a colleague's absences to start a family.
Where matters are indeed equal - it is right that firms are taken to task if women are not receiving the same salary as men doing the same work!
After all - in a fair society - does it really need to be the woman staying at home for dealing with children in their early years, in any case?
