Gender Pay Gap In City shocking
Gender pay gap in City ’shocking’ Men working in the UK’s financial sector receive five times more in bonus payments than women, according to a survey of 44 leading companies.On average, women earn 2,875 compared with 14,554 for men, the Equality and Human Rights Commission found. Chairman Trevor Phillips said the sector must take action “to address this shocking disparity of rewards”. Equality Minister Harriet Harman said the government was introducing...

Harperson on attack
Harriet Harman yesterday claimed Labour could never again have an all-male leadership. She said: “Men cannot be left to run things on their own.” The comments by the woman nicknamed “Harriet Harperson” for her strident views on equality, came in a TV interview midway through her fortnight “in charge” while Gordon Brown is on holiday. It will fuel suspicion she is positioning herself for a leadership bid if the job comes up. It emerged yesterday that shortly after her elec

Middle classes to lose out under Harman's equality plan
Middle class areas could lose out under Harriet Harman’s law to narrow the gap between rich and poor, which could see schools and the NHS told to target spending in working-class areas.

Recession? Blame it on the men, says Harriet Harman
Harriet Harman waded fearlessly back into the gender equality debate today when she appeared to blame men for the depth of the credit crunch and global economic downturn . Labour’s deputy leader, who is in charge at Downing Street while Gordon Brown is on holiday, made the comment as she defended her suggestion that at least one of the party's two top jobs should always go to a woman. Asked on GMTV whether the financial crisis would have arisen if more women had been in senior positions,...

Camberwell fire family back push for super-inquest: PHOTO
The father of one of the victims of the Camberwell tower block fire today welcomed Harriet Harman's push for a “super-inquest” into the blaze.

Minister admits: rape review plans back to drawing board
A Home Office minister today admitted plans to review rape laws had gone back to the drawing board after an intervention by Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman . Ms Harman vetoed the review at the last minute because she has wants the legislative proposals are toughened up to better address the concerns of women. She is currently standing in for Gordon Brown while the Prime Minister is on holiday and refused to sign off on an announcement that had been planned for today.

Harriet Harman: World banking crisis is down to men: PHOTO
Harriet Harman today appeared to blame too many male bankers for the global financial crisis.

Women board members better at ousting the boss than making money
London, Aug 7 (ANI): Women board members may not be very good at making money, but they are really efficient when it comes to ousting male chief executives who are not up to the job, according to a study. In the research, two academics have apparently found that while female board members behave more like independent directors, this does not necessarily translates into bigger profits. Labour's deputy leader and Equality Minister Harriet Harman has said that the credit crisis could have been...

Harriet Harman: British Banking crisis is down to men: PHOTO
Harriet Harman today appeared to blame too many male bankers for the global financial crisis. Labour's Deputy Leader, who is in charge of No 10 while Gordon Brown is on holiday, called for more women in the boardrooms of the biggest financial institutions, suggesting they would do a better job than men. Referring to the US bank which collapsed sparking international turmoil, she said: “Someone said that if it had been Lehman Sisters, instead of Lehman Brothers, there might not have been so...

Harriet Harman's husband Jack Dromey lined up for safe Labour seat: PHOTO
The husband of Harriet Harman is being lined up to fight a safe Labour seat in London at the next general election, it can be revealed.

Labour activists choose Johnson
Some 32% backed the Home Secretary to take over from the Prime Minister, followed by backbencher Jon Cruddas on 18% and Foreign Secretary David Miliband on 12%. Deputy leader Harriet Harman was supported by just 5%, in the ComRes survey of Labour councillors for BBC2's The Daily Politics. But less than a third - 31% - felt a change of leader before the next election would improve Labour's prospects. By contrast, 61% thought they would either not change or get worse. There was more concern about...

Harman Bill could lead to ban on Christmas celebrations: PHOTO
Catholic bishops today warned that Harriet Harman's Equality Bill could mean bans on Christmas celebrations.

Higher taxes as Harman wages new war on wealth
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman was last night understood to be leading the calls for a series of punitive hikes in property taxes designed to tackle in

Lap dancing has become 'part of working life': PHOTO
Lap dancing has become a routine part of many British workplaces, intimidating women and undermining equality, a campaign group has said

Brit Labour deputy leader bans topless calendars in workplace
London, Sep 28 (ANI): A Brit Labour politician has drawn up laws banning topless calendars and Page 3 photos from being displayed in the workplace. Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman, dubbed Hattie Har-person by critics, claims that it is harassment to put up saucy pics at work. “An employer who displayed any material of a sexual nature, such as a topless calendar, may be harassing employees where this makes the workplace an offensive place to work,” the Sun quoted the...

'Men dislike me because I won't take no for an answer,' says ...
Harriet Harman has said men don't like her because she won't take no for an answer. Labour 's deputy leader, who stepped up her equality agenda on the airwaves, said men found her difficult to deal with because of her attitude. It comes as Cabinet colleague accused her of going 'literally bonkers' over her feminist outbursts against men. Asked which of her traits were most disliked by colleagues in an interview, she said: 'Perhaps not taking no for an answer.'

Mandy runs the country...from Corfu
With Gordon Brown away for nearly all of August, Lord Mandelson was supposed to take over from Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman yesterday morning.

Lord Mandelson flies back to take control of the country: PHOTO
Lord Mandelson flies back from his Corfu holiday today to formally manage the day-to-day business of Government while the Prime Minister continues his own break. No one minister has officially been deputising for Gordon Brown over the weekend after Harriet Harman 's foreign vacation overlapped with the Business Secretary's. Downing Street was forced to issue a swift insistence that the PM remained "in charge" amid speculation the peer would be running the show via mobile phone from the Greek...

UK Pentagon Hacker Should Serve Any Jail Time In Britain
London, EnglandThe British government will push for a computer hacker who broke into Pentagon and NASA computers to serve his jail time in the United Kingdom if a United States court sentences him to jail, a top politician said Sunday. Briton Gary Mckinnon is accused of carrying out the biggest ever U.S. military hacking operation. “We’ll seek for him to serve any prison sentence, if he is sentenced to prison, back in this country,” said Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of...

Mandelson running the country (from Corfu)
With Gordon Brown away for nearly all of August, Lord Mandelson was supposed to take over from Harriet Harman yesterday morning.

Harriet Harman's call for female leader role angers John Prescott
John Prescott, the former Labour deputy leader, today rounded on his successor, Harriet Harman , over her insistence that women must always be part of the party's leadership. Harman made her remarks on BBC's Andrew Marr Show and in the Sunday Times. On his blog, Prescott said he read her interview with real sadness, especially her claim that Labour must never again have an all-male leadership. He also accused Harman of using her summer stint in charge at Downing Street to promote herself....

The fall and rise of Harriet Harperson
Harriet Harman's shock election as deputy leader sealed her reputation as Labour's ultimate 'comeback kid'. The ice-cool feminist was one of the first women to be promoted to Tony Blair's Cabinet in 1997 as Social Security Secretary

Arnold Schwarzenegger urged to terminate prostitution website
A British MP has urged Arnold Schwarzenegger to use his muscle to shut down a US website that allows users to review prostitutes. The California-based PunterNet describes itself as “The Online Community for Patrons and Providers of Adult Personal Services in the UK.” In her appeal to the action hero turned California governor, Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harman said: “Surely it can’t be too difficult for The Terminator to terminate PunterNet, and that’s what...

Margaret Thatcher airbrushed from Harriet Harman's history of women in politics
Harriet Harman has been accused of airbrushing Baroness Thatcher from an official government document saluting the role of women in politics in the last 100 years.

Brown's position crumbling as Harman begins her campaign: PHOTO
Harriet Harman was accused yesterday of plotting to undermine Gordon Brown and promote her own chances of succeeding him.