The government is consulting on the detail of its proposal to force companies with over 250 employees to publish their gender pay gaps. We don’t yet know what information employers will have to give. Whatever happens, it will probably yield some interesting data for wonks to pore over. Apart from that, though, I’m not sure it will tell us anything we don’t already know.
The last five years have seen a gradual fall in the full-time gender pay gap but the overall figure disguises significant differences. For women in their twenties, the gender pay gap had disappeared by the late 2000s. If anything, median pay for women has been slightly higher than that for men of a similar age for the last half decade. Over the same time period, the full-time pay gap for women in their thirties fell until it, too, disappeared. For those in their forties and fifties, though, there is still a big gap…
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