Asos, Savills and easyJet are among the big companies with the highest gender pay gaps in Britain as figures reveal a second consecutive year of narrowing pay differences.
The median pay gap shrank to 9.8 per cent in the year to last April, from 10 per cent a year earlier, research by The Times suggests. The analysis of organisations ranging from private companies to charities and government bodies, shows that on average women earned 90.2p for every £1 men earned.
It means that “gender pay day” — the day when women effectively stop being paid, based on the average gender pay gap — would be November 23 this year.
The vast majority of industries pay men more than women on average, with the pay gap