The gender pay gap for those earning over £100,000 will not close until 2068, another 48 years, according to investment platform easyMoney.

No progress has been made in closing the gap since the 2016-17 tax year, the last available year, with men still overwhelmingly outnumbering women in top income brackets. As a result, based on a five-year average, over the last year the estimated time to close the gap has lengthened rather than shortened

Men represent 79 percent, or 680,900, of the total 857,800 individuals who earned over £100,000 last year, compared with just 176,900 women.

For women, this is actually ...