Female managers do not close huge gender pay gap - research

Young confident businesswoman shakes the hand of her potential new employer at her interview.

Women are just as likely to earn less than men when they work under a female supervisor or in a company with a high proportion of women at the top, academics have said.

Simply hiring more women into senior posts did not appear to be a solution to persistent wage inequalities, they concluded in a study published in the European Sociological Review.