The Office for National Statistics calculates the gender pay gap at 17.1%, up from 17% the year before.

BBC: Gender pay gap 'still widening'

Demand Equal Pay for Women is just a page of data, though its developers have done some of their own calculations on top of the public data, and the site has some good statistics: closing the gender pay gap, they say, would add half a trillion dollars to the consumer economy.

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UNESCO's Institute for Statistics also highlights the lack of gender balance among teachers in Africa.

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Mr. Wagas Akram shared with the press statistics which paint a gloomy picture of gender disparities in Pakistan.

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Both Oxford and Cambridge routinely issue a broad collection of statistics relating to admissions, such as gender, ethnicity, disability, region and school type of candidates.

BBC: Month of birth affects chance of attending Oxbridge

Explanations of a specifically female propensity to shoplift fly in the face of statistics, which, for decades, have shown the gender division of shoplifting consistently hovering around the fifty-fifty mark.

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To find out, Forbes analyzed the median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers in 2012, detailed by occupation and gender and tracked by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

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In regards to the statistics he presented, I would have liked to have seen them broken down by gender.

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