UK - Of Pay & Parenting - Building Gender Balanced Business

The percentage of women who are managers or directors in Britain rose 4.7 points last year … but the pay gap with men actually increased, most precipitously among directors. And because women earn less, their bonuses are smaller. Part of the reason may be that women in leadership positions tend to be younger on average than the men, but the gap may also help explain the rise last year in resignation rates among women, and how the rate exceeds that of men.

Financial times 2007,
Gender pay gap widens

Three years after graduating from a British university:

• men are three times more likely to be among the few to be making more than 50,000 pounds a year
• women are about 5 percentage points more likely than men to be earning less than 17,500 pounds.

One critic attributed the difference to the relatively poor pay in many professions dominated by women.

Financial Times 06/11/07,
Range of graduate salaries revealed by study