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‘Noteworthy' | UK's gender pay gap underestimated for over two decades, research finds

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been miscalculating the UK’s gender pay gap for more than two decades, new research has suggested.

In a paper published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations on Monday, researchers found that the gap could have been underestimated by as much as 1%.

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