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The Price of Equality

Anushka Asthana investigates pay discrimination in Britain, more than 50 years after it was outlawed, and hears how it now threatens public services across the country.

Thousands of female council workers across Britain have lost out on pay and benefits worth billions because of unequal pay over decades. Now claims for compensation and demands to reform pay and grading threaten to capsize council finances, upset male council workers and cause massive cuts to local services.
Anushka Asthana investigates why such pay discrimination is still happening despite being illegal for the last fifty years. And she discovers what the price of equality might actually be, for the women seeking it and the millions of us living in places where our local council has ignored the problem for years.
Presenter: Anushka Asthana
Producers: Jonathan Brunert and Leela Padmanabhan

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  • Sun 30 Mar 2025 13:30
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