Women's Pay Day | Gender pay gap means women work first two months of the year 'for free'

The average woman effectively works for free for nearly two months of the year compared to the average man, gender pay gap for all employees currently at 14.3%, new research has revealed.

This pay gap means that working women waits 52 days before they stopped working for free on Women’s Pay Day, marked today on February 21st.

And the new analysis from the Trade Union Congress (TUC) also shows that at current rates of progress, it will take 20 years – until 2044 – to close the gender pay gap.

Industrial gender pay gaps

Gender pay gap reporting was introduced back in 2017. However, the TUC analysis shows that – some seven years later – there are still big gender pay gaps in many industries.