The Gender Pay Gap is Slowly Being Closed

The gender pay gap, the difference between men and women's wages for the same role, is slowly being closed. Whilst it's scandalous that there's a difference at all, the trend is at least positive.

The UK Government's Department for Culture Media & Sport's report on Secondary Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap - Changes in the gender pay gap over time (March 2014) shows that for young women in particular the gap is almost zero, with one age group actually earning slightly more than their male counterparts.

The pay gap for older age groups remains much wider, but even the pay gap for the largest disparity group (age 40-49) dropped from 24% to 15.7% between 1997 and 2013:

Source: UK Gov