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October 18, 2021

Most UK scaleups have worse than average gender pay gap

… And just one had no pay gap.


LinkedIn founder GOAT Ben Francis

More than half of UK scaleups had a gender pay gap worse than the national average in 2020. Only one — energy provider Bulb — had no gap, new government data shows. 

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Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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