Why is the gap in earnings between female and male graduates so stark?

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Women in their 30s fall further behind in the workplace. Eleanor Busby looks at why

oung women secure better GCSE and A-level grades on average than their male peers and tBut once these graduates enter the workplace, men reap the benefits when it comes to wages especially after the

 

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If you have to ask, then you're not going to like the answer.

Because you aren't comparing like for like. It is illegal to pay women less than men for the same or equivalent jobs.

Because they study DIFFERENT things?

Probably the same reason the gender work gap is always increasing.

Probably numerous reasons. They like to study different things. They like to do different types of jobs. And, by the time they do get into their 30s and 40s they have probably taken a break to have children.

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