We need to tackle last taboo and reveal what we earn

It’s not really considered ladylike to talk about grubby money, but it’s time for all of us - men included - to show what is in our pay packets, writes Clodagh Finn

IT IS probably easier to ask a woman a personal question, even an awkward conversation-stopping one, than to ask her how much she earns.

Somehow, the subject of pay packets continues to be a social taboo. A good (female) friend put it bluntly and beautifully when she said: “We’re more prudish about money than we are about sex.” And she has a point.