Opinion: Gender pay

What is a government to do when the status quo becomes just too
embarrassing, when Twitter seethes and the opposition gloats?
Collect statistics, obviously.
And so by early April UK companies with more than 250 employees
will have spilled the beans on how much they are paying women
compared with men.
It's easy to dismiss the cross-industry endeavour as yet
more futile data gathering, which primarily benefits the thriving
industry that has developed around gender equality in business.
The figures