This table is from the ONS stats on employment published this morning:
Women's pay across the UK fell on average last year.
Mens did not.
I think this point needs to be made very loudly and vert clearly in all economic debate.
Please do not tell me we live in an equal society: we clearly do not.
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Women are over-represented in low-paid work in general, part-time and casual work in particular.
That’s most of the inequality and the injustice you’re finding in those numbers.
I’d be interested to see how these rises and falls in income are shared out, up and down the income distribution curve; the gender gap you’re looking at is indirect evidence that incomes are falling in the lower quartile…
Or lower quartiles, plural; or, quite possibly, all segments except the top decile.
It is entirely possible that there is no net growth in incomes at all: just an upward redistribution and some statistical legerdemain concealing the exclusion of the poorest.
Unless you live in Northern Ireland, in which case it is the other way round.