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Kay Carberry, CBE (born 19 October 1950) is the current Assistant General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC).
Carberry studied at the Royal Naval School Tal-Handaq in Malta, then at the University of Sussex. She worked as a teacher for three years, and became active in the National Union of Teachers (NUT), where she took employment as a researcher. She began working for the TUC in 1978, and in 1988 was appointed as the first head of its Equal Rights Department. In 2003, she was appointed to the vacant post of Assistant General Secretary of the TUC.
Carberry has held a number of other posts. She is a commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission, was formerly a commissioner on the Equal Opportunities Commission, and acts as a trustee of the People's History Museum and, formerly, of Gingerbread and the Work Foundation.
In 2007, Carberry was awarded the CBE. She retired in 2016.