Women now outnumber men in the most high status professions after a "quiet revolution in the workplace". There are now more female lawyers, doctors and architects than male ones in Britain as a result of better education and a decline in the overall number of menial jobs. The figures show that the British workplace is relatively "segregated" in that women and men generally do different jobs. Men earn more than women, with the gender pay gap widened to 22.6 per cent last year. This is partly because men tend to be employed in more senior positions such as company directors, but also because they do more dangerous or physically demanding work.
The Telegraph