Equal pay: election rivals set out plans to target gender gap

The Liberal Democrats’ announcements were timed to coincide with Equal Pay Day.Photograph: Joe Giddens/PAThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to expand measures to tackle the gender pay gap by obliging bigger companies to publish data on employment levels by gender, as well as for BAME and LGBT staff.The party also promised to push for a law to end the so-called pink tax, whereby companies charge higher prices for fundamentally identical products such as razors or deodorants simply because t