Analysis: The best way to reduce the gender pay gap is for fathers to have more paternity leave

Analysis: The best way to reduce the gender pay gap is for fathers to have more paternity leave

It may take time, but it’s about changing societal expectations about childcare.

UK Research and Innovation publishes gender pay gap report

The sixth annual gender pay gap report highlights the percentage difference between the average hourly earnings for males and females across the organisation. The gender pay gap is a measure across all jobs in UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), not of the difference in pay between males and females for doing the same job. UKRI’s mean gender pay gap (GPG) has narrowed by 0.6 percentage points since 2022.The figures show that in 2024, UKRI’s mean…