The gender pay gap has barely improved in the past 25 years, according to new research.
The report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the average woman earned 40% less than her male counterpart in 2019. It said that this was because women were 9.5% more likely to not be in paid work at all, worked eight hours a week fewer than men, and earned 19% less per hour on average.
While the average seems an improvement on a pay gap of 53% in the 1990s, the IFS said that this fails to take into account the fact that a higher proportion of women now have higher education qualifications. Women were now more likely than men to be graduates.
