And finally…French newspaper charges men extra to the value of nation’s gender pay gap on International Women’s Day

The paper published two versions with different cover pages, one marked “for women, 2 euros, normal price” with a pictogram of a woman, the other marked “for men, 2.50 euros” with a pictogram of a man.

In a front-page message the paper noted that despite equal pay for equal work being enshrined by law since 1972, French women earn on average 25.7 per cent less than men, according to a 2017 report from an inequality watchdog.

“To highlight this injustice Liberation has decided to apply the same difference to its sale price for a day, meaning 50 cents more for men,” it said, adding that profits from the operation would be donated to France’s non-governmental Equality Observatory.

Liberation said it was inspired by Canadian monthly Maclean’s, which charged men more for its March edition also to denounce the wage gap.