n important driver behind the so-called gender pay gap is that teenage girls aspire to lower-paid careers than boys, according to a major new study.
Analysing data collected from nearly 8,000 teenagers in Britain, researchers at University College London (UCL)’s Institute for Education found that the careers 14-year-old girls highlighted as their ideal future jobs paid 27 per cent or £6.49 less per hour than those chosen by boys of the same age.