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Evening Standard
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Charlotte Duck

Pay gap, caring and confidence: why is it still so much harder for women to buy in London than men?

According to new research by property technology company iPlace Global, it takes a London woman 5.3 years longer than her male counterparts to buy a property in the capital.

This is at least in part because, in the UK, even before they’ve had children, the average woman’s income is 16 per cent less than that of a man and she saves 35 per cent less on average.

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