Apparently "no-win-no-fee" lawyers taking on such cases are only causing the cost of the bill to escalate. The case of care worker manager Rosaline Wilson is highlighted in the article.
Rosaline was only paid £6.50 an hour,a measly 50p more than the staff she managed and was awarded £32,000 by the courts when a "no-win-no-fee" lawyer took on her case. The council had offered an out-of-court settlement worth only £13,000.
Whilst she hailed the lawyer, who took £14,000 of her damages, as a hero, unions and authorities warn that such lawyers are threatening to mess up equal pay deals for all other underpaid women.
So who really wins?
Whilst a few women like Rosaline appear to gain some kind of justice back against patriarchal society's legacy of valuing men over women - its the lawyers who really seem to be cashing in.
As such lawyers have realised, undervalued and underpaid women have now become another kind of commodity, one that can be exploited as usual for financial gain but this time under the guise of 'helping women in their struggle for equality.'
Disgusting as that may be, who can really blame women like Rosaline for fighting back against a cultural bias we all know to be unjust?
The sad fact is that the long term prospects in woman's fight for equal pay may be hindered by this "no-win-no-fee" craze.
What will be left for women after the government have had to pay out billions to opportunistic lawyers? And how will it effect women's pay prospects in the future?
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