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08-23-2016, 05:02 PM
The gender pay gap for UK graduates is as bad as it was 20 years ago
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LONDON — The gender pay gap is "the same" as it was 20 years ago among the mid- and high-educated, according to new research published Tuesday by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
SEE ALSO: UK firms that fail to address gender pay gap will be named and shamed (http://mashable.com/2016/02/12/companies-gender-pay-gap/)
The research shows that the average difference in hourly wages between men and women has fallen gradually over the past two decades — from 28 percent in 1993 to 23 percent in 2003 and to 18 percent in 2016.*
However, among mid- and high-educated people, the gender pay gap remains "the same" as it was 20 years ago.
"Only among the lowest-educated individuals has the gender wage gap continued to shrink over the past two decades," reads (https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/bns/bn186.pdf) the report. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/23/gender-pay-gap-graduates/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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SEE ALSO: UK firms that fail to address gender pay gap will be named and shamed (http://mashable.com/2016/02/12/companies-gender-pay-gap/)
The research shows that the average difference in hourly wages between men and women has fallen gradually over the past two decades — from 28 percent in 1993 to 23 percent in 2003 and to 18 percent in 2016.*
However, among mid- and high-educated people, the gender pay gap remains "the same" as it was 20 years ago.
"Only among the lowest-educated individuals has the gender wage gap continued to shrink over the past two decades," reads (https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/bns/bn186.pdf) the report. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/23/gender-pay-gap-graduates/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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