The president pointed to some of what he called the "statistics of inequality" -- women earning 77 percent of what men earn;

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Mr Alexander said that the party's claim was based on figures from the Office of National Statistics and showed that the percentage of earning paid by the richest and poorest had actually widened in recent years.

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Are we women sabotaging our own earning power, thus inadvertently fueling the depressing statistics of our wage gap with men?

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