As of 2018, all companies in the UK with more than 250 employees are obliged to publish their gender pay gap. Despite convergence of earnings between men and women over time, a gap still exists.
A slightly different notion is equal pay. Equal pay is the idea that men and women with the same productivity or with exactly the same job receive the same pay. The gender pay gap encompasses, in addition, the idea that men and women may work in different industries (e.g. finance or healthcare), occupations (e.g. teacher or manager) or intensity (e.g. full-time compared to part-time work). These differences could lead to different average pay between men and women.
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