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Thomson Reuters reports UK gender pay gap of 16.95 percent

Thomson Reuters, one of the world’s biggest news and information companies, on Tuesday reported a mean gender pay gap for its British entities of 16.95 percent and a mean bonus gap of 50.52 percent.

Guy Faulconbridge of Reuters reported, “Thousands of large UK employers have been ordered to disclose their gender pay gaps by April, almost 50 years on from the passage of Britain’s equal pay act.

“‘At Thomson Reuters, we believe the strongest workforce is the most diverse workforce; the most competitive in the global economy,’ said Mark Sandham, senior vice president and chief operating officer for human resources at Thomson Reuters.

“We will continue to champion gender equality and look forward to continuing to measure progress,’ he said in a report.

“The data was combined for all of its British legal entities.

“Thomson Reuters said men occupied 71 percent of its senior leadership roles.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.