Closing the gender wage gap is an ongoing struggle in countries around the world today. In many professions, women are paid less overall than their male counterparts. One country, however, is making progress in shining a light on this wage disparity. British law will soon require large companies to publish information on the salaries paid to their male and female employees. While this is a big step forward in recognizing the gender pay gap, many women also face many other barriers to achieving equal pay, such as the "Mommy Tax." which journalist Ann Crittenden talks about in her article of the same name (Kirk and Okazawa-Roi 337). Another obstacle for women in the workplace related to the “Mommy Tax” is the way women generally are. From 2018, UK companies that employ more than 250 people will have to report information on how much they pay men and women in salaries and bonuses. . The UK government hopes this will incentivize businesses to reduce the gender gap. By showing how much they pay for each gender and how many men and women are in each pay bracket, they hope that companies with large pay gaps will struggle to recruit competitive talent and will be forced to close the gap . Despite this progress, some believe more can and should be done. Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, an organization which works for gender equality, believes that as well as shaming companies, there needs to be sanctions in place that will help force companies to change. Others, like Carolyn Fairbairn, chief executive of one of these two subjects, are contributing to the cause of the gender pay gap that Britain is trying to reduce with its new law, even if it does not not specifically attack these particular causes. A gendered division of labor refers to “a division of labor between men and women in which women have primary responsibility for the home and education and men are primarily active in the public sphere” (Kirk and Okazawa- Rey G3). This idea is initially meant to keep women out of the workforce, but failing that, at least shame women into domestic and civic tasks. This is most easily seen in "The Mommy Tax" which describes the average amount of money a college-educated woman will lose if she decides to have children. This tax is even higher for women who leave the workforce to raise their children for several years (Crittenden 338). Many companies want “free” workers, and so individuals who do not fall into this category, namely mothers, receive less money than their male or childless counterparts (Crittenden 440). Hopefully, by enacting this new law, companies that participate in this pay disparity will be seen and change their policies soon and women, mothers or not, will be able to receive the wages they are owed. The glass ceiling, on the other hand, is “an invisible barrier to women’s access