Efforts to close the gender pay gap risk stalling as countries recover from COVID-19, researchers said on Monday as a global poll showed almost a quarter of men thought the issue was "political correctness gone too far."
Although the survey spanning 28 countries revealed nearly 8 in 10 people considered it important to tackle wage differences between men and women, almost half of them did not think it should be a top priority during the health crisis.
More than 1 in 10 men said tackling the pay gap was not important, according to the poll published on International Women's Day by Ipsos MORI and the Global Institute for Women's Leadership (GIWL) at King's College London.