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The gender pay gap looks different depending where you are on the income ladder

Despite decades of progress, the gender pay gap remains a persistent feature of the UK labour market. According to women’s rights charity the Fawcett Society, November 22 marked Equal Pay Day 2025 – the day when women effectively stop getting paid due to the wage gap with men.

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Women working 'for free': gender pay gap not narrowing fast enough, says study

As of Monday, 10 November, women in France are working for free through the end of the year, according to an annual report that uses the exact day and time that men start being paid more than women, based on salary statistics, which show the gender pay gap is narrowing…

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Lifetime impact of gender pay gap costs women millions

The financial cost of the gender pay gap accelerates across a woman's lifetime and peaks in her late 50s, with an eye-watering amount of missed earnings.

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Underpaid? The highest and lowest ranking sectors for employee pay satisfaction in Europe

Is the Netherlands an employee haven? Are construction workers better off than most others? What's the uncomfortable truth about worker pay in Finland? A new survey reveals where workers are happiest with their pay.

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Share of low-paid workers in UK hits record low while gender pay gap narrows

Data from the Office for National Statistics also showed that average earnings have risen this year.

Evening Standard

AI could widen gender pay gap in some sectors – research

Industries such as logistics, utilities, private equity and creative arts could be affected, researchers suggest.

The Independent UK

US women narrowed the pay gap with men by having fewer kids

Women in the U.S. typically earned 85% as much as men for every hour they spent working in 2024. However, working women are faring much better than their moms and grandmothers did 40 years ago. In the mid-1980s, women were making only 65% as much as men for every hour…

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Academic research shows UK gender gap underestimated in official data for decades

The gender pay gap in the UK is more than twice that of France and Spain. New research suggests the gap is one percentage point higher than official figures.

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The Gender Pay Gap Isn’t Just About Sexism – It’s About Class

New data shows women in high-income homes earn 25% less than their partners—and that part-time work hits women’s wages as hard as long-term illness.

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UK gender pay gap underestimated for two decades, report says

Findings suggest since 2004 ONS failed to properly account for fact it received more data from larger employers

The Guardian - UK

'Unacceptable': closing gender pay gap still hard work

Women are working 50 days past the end of the financial year to earn the same as men, showing the need for further action from employers on the gender pay gap.

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Capital gains for the rich and persistent gender pay gaps: what we can learn from the ATO’s annual tax statistics

Data shows negative gearing remains the favourite of high-income earners, while most Australians’ super balances fall short of what is needed for a ‘comfortable retirement’

The Guardian - AU

A New UK Report Revealed That The Gen Z Gender Pay Gap Has Reversed. Here’s Why

For the first time in ten years, the gender pay gap has reversed for Gen Z men. Experts are calling a crisis in masculinity as a response.

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Parental leave probe could tackle gender pay gap, says minister

Employment rights minister Justin Madders criticised a ‘piecemeal approach’ to designing the parental leave system over the past 134 years.

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The Gen Z gender pay gap has reversed with young women earning more than young men – so what’s up with boys?

IN FOCUS: For the first time in history, many young women are out-earning their male peers. As boys lag behind in education and employment, Ben Bryant reports on how this signals a deeper crisis in masculinity

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The Gender Pay Gaps At AusPost, The ATO & More Public Sector Workplaces Just Dropped

Gender pay gaps at Australia's biggest public sector employers have been revealed for the first time.

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The public service has a much smaller gender pay gap than the private sector. It’s a big achievement

After two years of publishing the gender pay gaps of Australia’s private-sector companies, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency has released public-sector employer data for the first time.

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'Accountability' at heart of low public sector pay gaps

Gender pay gaps at public sector employers have been revealed for the first time, with the data showing many have a gap much lower than the private sector.

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ABC and SBS gender pay gaps revealed as public sector wage data released for the first time

Commonwealth employees had significantly smaller pay gap than private sector average, while ABC ahead of national median but behind other news outlets, including SBS

The Guardian - UK

‘Oh, you’re a woman!’ Why are more than 90% of pilots still men – and can anything narrow the gender gap?

Get on a plane on either side of the Atlantic and you’re vastly more likely to find a man at the controls. Is it because of prejudice, the problems the job poses for family life – or something else?

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Gen Z men and women take home very different salaries and the gender pay gap is a problem from the start

Post-grad men and women also have vastly different expectations for their careers and standard of living.

The Conversation

A landmark ruling will tackle the gender pay gap for thousands of workers

The Fair Work Commission has found award pay rates in five industrial awards covering a range of female-dominated occupations and industries do not provide equal pay.

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New research lays bare the harsh realities facing artists and arts workers

Australia’s visual arts and craft workers are facing increasingly deteriorating conditions, according to research published today.

Euronews

Being transparent about pay could save EU women €700 per year

A woman working in an SME in the EU could gain between €465 and €700 annually thanks to the EU’s Pay Transparency Directive. However, some business groups have expressed concerns over reporting obligations.

Radio France Internationale

Podcast: Women wage outrage, farmers face organic slump, Ravel's Bolero

Despite a raft of laws and programmes in France to address the gender pay gap, women still earn less than men. Organic farmers try to adapt to a drop in demand for organic food. And the story of Ravel's Boléro – the world's most performed piece of classical music.

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