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Female graduates earn nearly 20% less than male peers

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Female graduates earn nearly 20% less than male peers

Female graduates earn 17% less than their male peers five years after finishing an undergraduate course a new study shows.

The benchmarking website Emolument.com conducted the study by crowdsourcing data from more than 49,000 anonymous individuals.

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