One Bright Spot in UK Gender Gap: IT - Building Gender Balanced Business

• While gains in reducing the UK gender pay gap have stalled or even regressed, female executives in the technology sector actually out-earn their male counterparts, according to one executive jobs website.

• The website Experteer found IT to be the most female-friendly sector in Britain in terms of pay and promotion.

• Female executives earn on average 2% more than men, it said, and reach top spots in management a year younger than corresponding men.

• But the website also noted that the vast majority of IT managers are men. Thus the findings may be skewed by the small sampling of women. No details on methodology were given. (A similar study, silicon.com’s Skills Survey, found that women were far more likely to fill lowest-level positions in IT and less likely than men to earn top salaries.)

• The pay gap among executives across all sectors was 7%, with women being paid equally (on average) only in their first executive position. Women do reach that level an average three to four years younger than men.

• For all levels of executive positions, the gender gap was largest in media, at 34%, followed by medicine at 27% and tourism and transport, at 17%. No sector but IT showed higher median wages for female managers at all levels.

Silicon.com’s summary of Experteer’s findings