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.

But it also means consumers have to wade through even more VPN advertising hype. Over the past several years, a flood of VPN providers has entered the marketplace, and that comes with both benefits and drawbacks. On one hand, tutor md the array of affordable VPN options now available means that -- no matter how critical or casual your privacy needs -- there's a VPN service suited to your purpose.

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.

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.

LONDON, April 4 (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.

To do so, the Hollywood Reporter reports, executives have already inked a deal with Microsoft to power its advertising technology and enlisted Snap chief business officer Jeremi Gorman and vice president of sales Peter Naylor to head the initative.

"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.

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I said ''that's not for me anymore, I'm going.'' Offering an insight into their backstage row, Tony hearkened back to his days as a footballer, telling Rylan: 'The last time I've been told off like that was by George Graham and I left the dressing room.

(If this is a concern for you, you'll want to avoid countries that the US has intelligence-sharing agreements with, too.) Think twice about using a US-based VPN: The Patriot Act is still the law of the land in the US, and that means US-based VPNs have little recourse if and when the feds show up with subpoenas or national security letters in hand demanding access to servers, VPN user accounts or other data. Yes, they may have little data to access if the service has a strong no-logs policy, but why not just choose a service that's based outside Uncle Sam's jurisdiction?

MacDonald received a Golden Globes nomination for her performance in The Girl In The Cafe, a Richard Curtis directed drama, before secure a supporting role in the Academy Award-winning No Country For Old Men in 2007.

Katya's strong words paid off as she and Tony earned their highest score to date, with the judges praising their American Smooth as a tribute to those who helped the sportsman during his personal struggles.

The report comes as Netflix executives work to revitalize its membership growth after a sudden decline in the first half of the year, when the company's subscriber base shrunk by a whopping 1.2 million people.

LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Britain's Brexit minister David Frost said on Friday that significant gaps remained with the European Union across most issues relating to the Northern Irish protocol and that if no solution could be found, then Article 16 would be used.

"If no such solution can be found, we remain prepared to use the safeguard provisions under Article 16, which are a legitimate recourse under the Protocol in order for the government to meet its responsibilities to the people of Northern Ireland," he said.

Filmed largely in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the drama will follow the disappearance of O'Neil's daughter, whose investigation leads him to fear that her the case may be linked to that of another missing girl years earlier, potentially exposing a police cover-up.

And talking to  last week, the dancer-in-training admitted his struggles during the competition - recalling 'breaking down' after his first performance, which saw him score 15 out of 40 points from the judges.

Surfshark says a new audit is forthcoming by the end of this year.  Surfshark says it doesn't log any user activity. And although no-logging claims are virtually with 100% certainty, German cybersecurity firm Cure53 declared Surfshark's security to be "solid" in its 2021 security audit of the VPN.

But in the United States and Canada, Netflix only made modest gains of 100,000 subscribers as the market reaches maturity and newer entrants — like Paramount+ — are picking up more subscribers because they offer live sports programming.