Each November, Equal Pay Day marks the day in the year when women in the United Kingdom, on average, stop being paid compared with men. In 2024, that day fell on 20 November 1 —a sobering reminder that women earned around 89p for every £1 earned by men. Yet amid this ongoing inequity, new analysis offers a glimmer of hope: organisations led by women chief executive officers (CEOs) are associated with smaller gender pay gaps.

The Gender Pay Gap Report 2025 from Global 50/50 is based on eight years of data from 45 UK based global health organisations. It found that on average organisations with a woman CEO had 4.3% smaller median hourly gender pay gaps over this period than organisations led by men. 2 Modelling of these trends suggests that organisations led by a woman CEO for at leas

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