Female consultants face a bigger gender pay gap than women in IT, finance, retail or the public and voluntary sectors, according to a report.
The poll of more than 2,400 executives earning at least £50,000 per year in the above sectors found that men earned an average of 19% more than their female equivalents.
In the consulting trade, men earned 35% more than women. In the financial and IT sectors, male executives earned 20% more than their female peers.
In retail, the wage gap was 11%, and in public and charity organisations it was 6%, according to the poll by executive job site Experteer.
Torsten Muth, managing director of Experteer.co.uk, said: “Despite the continuous effort by equality campaigners and the government, it is frustrating to see women are still struggling to be treated equally in the workplace.
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“We’ve seen more women feeling that they have hit the glass ceiling, and some of them end up leaving work completely. As a result, employers are losing out as they lose some of their most talented workers.
“Organisations should make more effort to change the work culture and to create a fair work environment for both men and women.”
