Women in IT are paid more than men for the first time

According to research by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), women in junior roles in the IT sector are being paid more than men in the same job for the first time.

A female junior IT executive in the UK earns an average salary of £20,730 compared with £20,686 for men at the same level. In 2010 the same research found men working at junior levels in IT received an average of £1,119 more than women.

Female salaries also increased by 2.5% year-on-year, compared with a 0.5% increase for male IT staff.

Sandra Pollock, national chair of CMI's Women in Management (WiM) network, said: "It is wonderful to see that the gender pay gap at junior executive level has closed and we hope this continues as this generation climb the ranks of management."

The research shows equal pay for all women in IT jobs is still slacking. The survey conducted by XpertHR on behalf of CMI, shows men are paid an average of £15,469 more than women doing the same job.
Petra Wilton, CMI's director of policy and research, said the gender pay gap is damaging UK businesses.

She insists the government and employers do more to support and celebrate women in the workplace.

"We need the government to scrutinise organisational pay, demand more transparency from companies on pay bandings and publicly expose organisations found guilty of fuelling the gender pay gap," Wilton said.

"We want to see mentoring and sponsorship programmes in more businesses and industries and more female executives pushing their employers to formalise and publicise equal pay and opportunity policies," she said.