Claim: A woman in her twenties will earn 95p for every pound that young men of their age earn.
Fact-check: Age, motherhood and the gender pay gap - Full Fact
Verdict: that's what you'd expect on average. if you knew nothing about two people apart from the fact that one was a woman, one was a man, and both were working and in their twenties, you'd expect the woman to earn about 5% less than the man.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Richard Braham
Date published: 2017-01-06T00:00:00