Women now earn £226.69 less a year than they did in 2010 when the Tories came to power.
A Labour analysis shows that at today’s prices women at the mid point of the full-time wages scale get £30,031.61 now compared to £30,258.30 twelve years ago.
Although the same figure in 2010 was £22,492, any pay rises have been whittled away by inflation and tax rises.
And as prices have increased this year women are also seeing a drop of nearly £600 on their real pay since 2021.
Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary Anneliese Dodds said: “ Boris Johnson is far too focussed on saving his own skin to do anything to help them with the cost of living crisis.”
Of the extra 1.5million people thrown into poverty over the last decade six in ten of them were women.
Single parents - nine in ten of whom are mothers - face struggling with soaring prices on just £400 of savings compared to a national average for families of £8,000.
And unemployment among women from ethnic backgrounds has shot up 48% since before the pandemic.
That means one in eight of them are likely to go hungry as food prices hit the roof.
Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is warning that childcare costs are now rising faster than wages and parents have to spend £10 more a week on after school clubs than they did in 2018.
She said: “The Tories are doing nothing to help families.
“They’ve made it worse with fifteen tax rises, and twelve years of neglect forcing schools to cut back on free clubs and activities for children.”
Labour plans free access to school breakfast clubs and close the gender pay gap by naming and shaming bad bosses.
A Cabinet Office Equality spokesperson said: “Over the last decade our work has seen the gender pay gap fall considerably, record highs of women in employment and a strong growth in the number of women in full-time work.”
