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Women in UK Financial Services Still Earn a Fifth Less Than Men
2025-04-22 09:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
The average woman working in the UK financial sector earns about a fifth less than their male colleagues, a reflection of how the gender pay gap has stubbornly persisted even during a period when businesses pledged to address workplace inequity through diversity, equity and inclusion schemes.Female employees in financial and insurance services earned around 78 pence for every pound that men do in 2024, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of government data. The pay gap shrunk shrunk by 1.2 percentage points since last year and is almost twice as high as the average across the whole UK workforce. The picture is particularly dire in investment banking, one of the top-paying corners of the industry.HSBC Bank Plc, which represents the lenders UK investment banking operations, has the worst gender pay gap among the top five UK-listed banks at almost 41%. HSBC and Standard Chartered Plc are the only two companies on that list where earnings have become more unequal last year. Barclays Ba...
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2025-04-22 08:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
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Marvel Mocks Spider-Man Fans With Mary Jane Venom Wedding Cover
2025-04-22 08:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Objection! Artist John Romitas classic cover for 1987s Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 was somewhat misleading. Unlike the direct market cover, which depicted the tuxedoed Peter Parker and his lavishly-styled bride Mary Jane Watson with their friends and family, the more famous newsstand edition showed a red-and-blue-suited Spider-Man marrying Mary Jane. (The giant-sized special wedding issue saw Spider-Mans villains Doc Ock, Hobgoblin, Kraven the Hunter, the Lizard, Vulture, Mysterio, and the Kingpin among them crash the ceremony, but only in Peters pre-wedding jitters dream sequence.) Videos by ComicBook.comThe actual hitching of Peter and MJ went off without a hitch, and the couple lived happily ever after until the infamously controversial Spider-Man: One More Day made it so that they were never married, and Spider-Man: One Moment In Time retconned the wedding issue after effectively resetting Spider-Man for the Brand New Day era in 2008. Its still a sore point for fans who...
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