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Rachel Reeves may be the first female Chancellor in history, but her budget could ‘significantly disadvantage women in the workplace’, experts have warned. The Labour Chancellor announced £40billion worth of tax rises last week, largely funded by a major reform to Employers’ National Insurance Contributions, a levy companies pay directly to the government. Currently, companies pay 13.8 per cent tax on employees’ salaries over £9,100, meaning if you earned £50,000pa, your employer would pay an NIC of £5,644 to the government. But Reeves has slashed that threshold to £5,000 and increased the rat…