sarah russell is a solicitor specialising in discrimination at work.il, and joins us from our salford studio. thanks for being with us this lunchtime. let me ask you first of all, these figures are not about the same pay for the same work. they reflect differences within an organisation. what do you think that tells us about the state of employment at the moment and the gender differences that still exist? in some respects relatively little, so if you look at the easyjet report, they have provided the information they are required to by law and not a jot more, so it is two sides of a four paper with a big craft taking up plenty of space, so ina craft taking up plenty of space, so in a sense this tells you a snapshot of information at a point in time about a limited number of organisations, but it does reflect the wider societal statistics which suggests there is a pay gap across the board of about 18%, so this is consistent with that. in the detail, since you mentioned the example of easyj et, since you mentioned the example of easyjet, they pointed ou