Gender pay gap for women in their 50s won’t close before 2050, claims Labour

Anneliese Dodds said: ‘Women in their 40s, 50s and 60s deserve so much better than this’. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

The so-called equal pay generation of female workers born near the passing of the 1970 Equal Pay Act are unlikely to see the gap close during their working lives, a Labour analysis has shown.

Research carried out for Anneliese Dodds, the shadow secretary of state for women and equalities, calculated that such is the slow rate of change with equal pay for women in their 50s, the gender pay gap will not close before 2050 at the current trajectory.