Last week’s post on the strange disappearance of Italy’s gender pay gap reminded me to do an update on what’s happening with ours. The ONS published its latest figures a couple of months ago so I have added them to the graph I did at the end of 2011.
For some background, the gap between full-time pay for men and women has fallen significantly since equal pay legislation became law in 1975. For those in their twenties, the gap had gone by 2006. If anything, women were earning, on average, slightly more than men.
Since then, the pay gap for those in their thirties has followed a similar trend to the point where it, too, has almost disappeared.
Gender pay difference for median hourly earnings, excluding overtime Percentage full-time pay difference (men/women) by age band
The big jump in pay differences comes in the older…
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