Imagine spending the last seven weeks of this year working for nothing. This is in effect what women across the world do when compared with men because of the endurance of gender pay gaps.
In a country such as the UK, where average hourly earnings for women are 13 per cent lower than for men, it equates to female workers spending 48 days out of a year working for free. They do it for even longer in countries with bigger pay gaps.
These UK figures apply to all jobs, full or part-time, and are partly explained by the higher number of women who work either part-time or in poorly paid industries, or both.
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