The ONS published its 2011 data on the gender pay gap last week. The figures show the continuing gradual reduction of the gap between women’s and men’s pay. Much of the discussion has focused on the opening up of a slight pay gap between full-time twentysomething women and men. For the first time, the gap favours women. This has been coming for some time. By the middle of the last decade, the full-time gender pay gap had all but disappeared for those in their twenties and the relative performance of women and men at degree level was bound to show through sooner or later.
Perhaps more interesting, though, is the drop in the full-time pay gap for those in their thirties. Last time I looked at this, using 2006 data from this ONS study, the full-time pay gap between men and women opened up sharply for those in their thirties. This…
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