THERE are loads of things I'm envious of when it comes to the 1960s.

The beehives, the clothes, the music, the whisky breaks - or is that just Mad Men?

I'm more than half way through the American TV series set against a backdrop of the glamorous and often seedy advertising world of New York in the 60s.

Mostly the programme is right up my street.

But there's something that makes me cringe - the gender inequality.

I didn't exist at this point in time so it's hard to get my head round women only being housewives or in low-paid secretarial jobs.

Not that there's anything wrong with being these things, but the problem is that women weren't expected or encouraged to be anything else.

In Mad Men you have these dominating and powerful male characters like Don Draper who is seen as a boss, a dad, a party animal and provider.

In contrast the women in the programme are shown to be wives and mothers or wives and mothers in waiting.

The exception to the rule is Peggy Olson, who manages to become a copywriter, a job usually reserved for boys.

How things have changed. Most women now have careers and don't feel like they're just waiting for a husband.

We have our inaugural female First Minister - the first to take the top job in Scotland - who has pledged to smash the glass ceiling to "smithereens."

But is all this enough? The answer is no.

Let's look at the gender pay gap. I was shocked to read last month that women in the UK are apparently working for free until the end of this year.

We effectively stopped getting paid on November 4 - just because we're women.

At the current rate of progress I'll be in my 80s before there's pay equality. What's holding us back from making real change?

Grazia magazine is petitioning for Section 78 of the Equality Act 2010 to be enacted. as part of their Mind The Pay Gap campaign.

This would mean businesses with 250 employees or more would have to publish anonymised details annually about the hourly pay of men and women they employ.

On Tuesday MPs will vote on this and if it's a 'yes' it will signal a major change.

I'm behind this 100%. Transparency is needed to give businesses a kick up the backside.

The Mad Men era is long gone but we still don't have equality at work. It's about time we got a move on.