When we first measured our gender pay gap at Riverford in 2017, women earned an average of 91p an hour to their male colleagues’ £1. But why did it take a woman and a new entrant to our historically very male industry to deliver that? View image in fullscreen Riverford farm now has a negative gender pay gap, with women earning 1.56% more per hour than men. At 65, I lament the decades spent constrained by my own limited, unimaginative masculinity – whether at work, at home or in the pub. To live an unexamined life, defined by our society’s gender norms as “protector and provider”, is to live only half a life.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2026 12:00 UTC