Which is it

[TheCat]

So, which is it. Are women systematically passed over for promotion to the highest positions? Or do they get paid 20% less than men? I can't believe that these two things coexist......

[IlonaM]

Why ever not?

[Robert Poste's Child]

Two proof points of the same thing, surely: that men (presumably older ones if they're in positions to make these decisions) are still treating women as inferior to men, chiefly because they are women.

So in the NHS female doctors are (by last week's account) 25% 'less than' male doctors in the same roles. If those in power have already deemed women to be inferior to their male colleagues, why on earth would they promote them?

When I was at school we accepted that women could do anything men could. That was going on for forty years ago. For public institutions (never mind the private sector) to be doing this still and, worse, showing no urgency to close the gap now it has been proven, is utterly sickening and indefensible.

And if you're a woman, don't expect to be taken seriously or promoted after the age of 45.