The UK’s Office of National Statistics has just issued its latest figures from the 2011 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. These reveal that although the gender hourly pay gap (excluding overtime) for all employees stood last April at 20.2% the differential between male and female earnings was only 11.7% for full-time workers and was reversed for part-time employees. The median hourly earnings of part-time women was 4.8% higher than for part-time men. This gap was entirely due to earnings with in the 22-39 age range.