Gloria De Piero MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, responding to the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report said:

“This is a damning indictment of David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s record for women. Their policies have meant that women’s wages are lower this year than last year and the gender pay gap is back on the rise after years of falling under Labour.

"A Labour Government will stop the clock being turned back for women across Britain by increasing the minimum wage to £8 and taking action on equal pay by requiring big companies to publish their pay gap. And Ed Miliband has said that for the first time in Britain’s history he wants a Cabinet of 50 per cent women.”