But this sympathetic and fascinatingly detailed biography reveals the shadowy side of Stoppard's good fortune — family members killed in the Holocaust, the loss of his father when he was too young to remember him, the troubled first

This was up from 44.9% the prior year. HSBC - already one of the most unequal banks in Britain in terms of gender pay - reported a wider mean average gap for the year, disclosing women were paid 45.2% less than men.

LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) - HSBC, Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley and Standard Chartered reported a widening in the gap between what they paid women and men in 2022, according to data reviewed by Reuters.

Who can claim Maternity Allowance?  According to the DWP, Maternity Allowance payments provide a safety net for women before and after childbirth for up to 39 weeks and are designed to cover those who do not qualify for Statutory Maternity Pay, usually because they are on low wages or self-employed.

Earlier, Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi insisted the 'pattern' of the mutant strain was not the same as Delta - with fewer patients needing a ventilator and generally staying in hospital for a shorter time.

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WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - U.S. COVID-19 cases fell 10% over the past week, signaling a "hopeful trend" even as wide gaps in vaccination rates across the country have raised new concerns, the head of the U.S.

Centers for Disease and Prevention said on Friday.

As part of the announcement, there will also be an £8million fund to remove barriers to post-graduate research for black, Asian and minority ethnic students, with projects looking at admissions and targeted recruitment.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, speaking to reporters in a news briefing, said there were "unsettling gaps" in parts of the country where vaccination rates were low and could allow spikes in cases of the novel coronavirus and possibly more deaths.

Nearly a third of rail services have been axed at some stations in recent days, after as many as one in ten staff called in sick with illnesses including Covid - while major engineering works on key commuter routes are scheduled to continue until midway through next week.

His passionate account of farming in the 21st century is an urgent and persuasive vision of a future in which food production can exist in harmony with nature and has justifiably just won the Wainwright nature writ

Experts say that while the gender pay gap data is a blunt tool for measuring disparities - as it does not reflect gaps at the same level of seniority, for example - it can capture broad inequities and affect change.

Where pay gaps were further broken down by ethnicity, they showed the largest pay disparities were between Black and white employees.

The widest gap was Deutsche Bank's at 38.4%, though this narrowed slightly on the prior year.

The PM revealed that the government is looking at redeploying personnel after the public sector was warned to brace for a worst-case scenario of a quarter of staff - around 1.4million people - being off work.

The latest figures suggest growth in Covid hospitalisations in London - seen as a leading indicator of what may happen in the rest of the country - slowed in the run-up to New Year, although holiday reporting glitches could be affecting the total.

"Organisations think and say they're doing the right thing to advance gender equality in the workplace - but when it comes to taking action ... they are failing to deliver," said Ann Francke, CEO of the Chartered Management Institute.

04 pp) ‘Our land is like a poem, in a patchwork landscape of other poems, written by hundreds of people . ' When James Rebanks inherited the Lake District family farm once owned by his father and grandfather, ‘I knew I was now married to this land for better