{"id":53433,"date":"2017-05-02T06:01:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/women-make-up-same-proportion-of-uk-high-earners-as-six-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T06:09:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T23:09:23","slug":"women-make-up-same-proportion-of-uk-high-earners-as-six-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/women-make-up-same-proportion-of-uk-high-earners-as-six-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Women make up same proportion of UK high earners as six years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nResearch suggests efforts to tackle gender pay gap have stalled as women still account for just over 25% of higher-rate taxpayersThe proportion of British women classed as high earners has not changed in the past six years, despite a drive to increase the number of women in senior roles, research shows.Women accounted for just over 25% of higher-rate taxpayers in each of the past six financial years, according to HM Revenue &amp; Customs data obtained from Clyde &amp; Co law firm. In the previous tax year, of the 4.41 million higher-rate taxpayers, 1.19 million were women. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/may\/02\/women-high-earners-uk-taxpayers-gender-pay-gap\" target=\"_blank\">Women make up same proportion of UK high earners as six years ago<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Research suggests efforts to tackle gender pay gap have stalled as women still account for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-dTP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7090,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-the-chancellor-right-to-not-change-pensions-tax-relief\/","url_meta":{"origin":53433,"position":0},"title":"Is the chancellor right to not change pensions tax relief?","date":"March 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The forthcoming budget was expected to include a pledge to cut tax relief on pensions for higher earners, but this has been dropped amid growing concern that it could prompt a backlash from affluent votersAfter weeks of speculation that the chancellor was planning big changes to the tax relief\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49146,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/are-you-a-woman-over-70-years-old-and-still-working\/","url_meta":{"origin":53433,"position":1},"title":"Are you a woman over 70 years old and still working?","date":"March 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The proportion of working women aged over 70 in the UK, has almost doubled. 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