Gender Equality and Workplace Culture

cent: I was born in Nigeria, where men still hold a tight monopoly on cultural and political power, according to Huffington Post Canada. My family and I moved from Lagos to Luton when I was 11. Like a chameleon, it takes many shapes and forms, but one thing is for certain, it needs to end. The wheels of gender equality are in motion in the UK but there is evidently still a long way to go -- subtle and institutional bias persist, women still get paid 18 per cent less than men and only 25 per cent of UK STEM graduates are female. A woman's personal decision was discussed and judged in a professional setting as an inconvenience because of a workplace culture which permits and possibly promotes that rhetoric. I recently learned of an incident in London, where at a work meeting, a manager complained that a member of her team was always pregnant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.