The influx of women into universities in recent years has helped narrow the gender pay gap, it has been suggested. Although it says that a pay gap still exists between men's and women's salaries, an article in the Times claims that women who will soon be earning graduates' wages will help decrease that variation. It cites a report from the Equal Opportunities Commission which states that women between the ages of 22 and 39 earn an average of 0.1 per cent more than men of a similar age. "The flood of women into university has helped to increase their pay, with 57 per cent of students now women," Grianne Gilmore writes. "Graduates are paid at least £150,000 more than nongraduates over the course of their lifetime." A Hay Group study has revealed that the average graduate salary is £20,354 this year - an increase on the £19,872 that those who newly left university could look forward to in 2006.
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