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    Save the date, but party to mark end of gender pay gap not until 2235

    Slow move toward wage parity shown on Equal Pay Day, when women ‘stop getting paid’
    by Alexandra Topping Nov 10, 2018 3 minutes
    Stella Creasy is organising a party in 2235 to mark the end of the gender pay gap. Photograph: Richard Gardner/REX/Shutterstock

    It promises to be the hottest party in town; a huge Trafalgar Square bash to celebrate the end of the gender pay gap.

    But there is just one catch. Guests have been asked to save the date – in 2235, the year that the World Economic Forum has said the gap will be closed, given the current rate of change.

    Labour MP Stella Creasy said the party, which she has organised and which will be hosted by the mayor of London Sadiq

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