Parliamentary Paper

The gender pay gap

By Feargal McGuinness and Doug Pyper

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Publication date
Series or book
House of Commons Library Briefing Paper
Series or chapter number
7068
Pages
pp. 1–33
Publisher
House of Commons Library
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Summary

This briefing paper provides statistics on the size of the gender pay gap in the UK, looks at some of the reasons why the gender pay gap arises and discusses the duty on large employers to report on the size of the gender pay gap in their workforce.

Notes

References: Costa Dias, M., Joyce, R., and Parodi, F. (2018) 'Wage progression and the gender wage gap: the causal impact of hours of work', IFS Briefing Notes, No. BN223. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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