U.K. Financial Firms Say Gender Pay Gaps Aren’t Getting Smaller

With only a few weeks to go before the deadline for U.K. firms to disclose their gender pay gaps, more than 77 percent of the country’s financial firm’s haven’t filed their reports. Among those that have, the results aren’t that encouraging.

At nearly 100 companies in the financial sector, women earn on average 28 percent less than men do. That’s little changed from the average pay gap the sector’s biggest firms reported last year, the first time companies with more than 250 employees in the U.K. were required to disclose their gender pay gaps.

Across all the firms that filed ...