BARELY ANY CHANGE TO GENDER EARNINGS GAP IN LAST 25 YEARS ONCE YOU ACCOUNT FOR INCREASES IN WOMEN’S EDUCATION
In this FE News article produced by the Institute for Fiscal Studies the authors inform us :
“The average working-age woman in the UK earned 40% less than her male counterpart in 2019 @TheIFS. This is because, among 20- to 55-year-olds not in education, long-term sick or retired:
-Women are 9.5 percentage points less likely to be in paid work at all (83.5% of women and 93% of men).
-Women do 8 fewer hours of paid work per week than men if they are employed (34 per week on average rather than 42).
-Women in paid work earn 19% less per hour on average (£13.20 rather than £16.30).”
These are among the key findings of new research on gender inequalities undertaken for the IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.