I'm taking part tomorrow in a Women's Hour discussion on part-time work, so I thought I'd use this post as a way of clarifying for myself what the position is on the gender pay gap, using the recent ONS report on earnings.  For the mathematically challenged such as myself some of the figures need a bit of puzzling out, but don't switch off - I think it's worth persevering. First, the 'headline' figure which has attracted attention is the increase from 9.5% to 10% of the median hourly earnings of full-time employees.  It's right, of course, that we should be emphatically reminded that progress towards equality is by no means guaranteed.…