Keir Starmer is wrong about the equal pay 'right to know'

Fifty years on from the Equal Pay Act, the world looks very different for women now than it did then. Women run their own small businesses, lead corporate firms, and last December a woman wrote herself a cheque for £341m, the highest corporate executive pay pack in UK history. A gender pay gap that was once ingrained in British working culture because of gender discrimination has diminished. Women in their twenties right through to their forties earn roughly the same as men. Women in part-time work earn, on average, more than men.

By no means is the world equal yet. Women in many developing countries are denied basic freedoms. Even in the UK, a glance at sexual or domestic abuse figures show we still have a long way to go. But when it comes to women in work, the story is a resounding success. The Equal Pay Act was a liberal piece of legislation that secured women basic rights and equal treatment at work.