Why are women far more likely than men to praise their colleagues’ work? | Torsten Bell

A female-centred workplace is a more appreciative one, Swedish research finds, but with a gender gap of 8%, nice doesn't cut it with pay

We got the official data on UK earnings last week. It included the joyful reminder that last year our pay didn't keep up with rising prices, for the ninth year in the 14 years since 2010. Something we used to think almost never happened, has become painfully normal.

But you all know your wages aren't going as far as they used to, so let's focus on what the data tells us is going on gender pay gap-wise. Among full-time employees it's 8%. On the positive side, that's way down from an absolutely staggering 36% in 1971, but it hasn't budged much in recent years. The remaining gap is largely about workers aged 40-plus, which is the age at which the very different impacts of having children kick in on mothers' and fathers' careers.

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