That ladies earn lower than males in wealthy international locations is so well-known it’s typically met with a shrug. The gender wage hole is one in all ten indicators in our annual “glass-ceiling index”, rating how ladies fare within the office. On most measures, together with illustration on boards and in parliaments, international locations enhance annually. However throughout the oecd, a membership of principally wealthy international locations, the median hole is caught at 11.4%, up from a low of 11.1% in 2020 (see chart) regardless of insurance policies designed to slim it.