Apparently women at my company earn 11% less than men.

Now.... there are around 2500 employees of whom everyone apart from the executive (around 30 people) are paid on a grade and a scale. Everyone is appointed to the grade for their job and the scale depends entirely on salary of your previous post.

In other words, 2470 people are paid exactly the same as their counterparts and it is not possible for gender to be an issue in Agreeing the scale.

Within the executive, of 30 people, around25 of these are women. There are hardly any men apart from the CEO.

The only possible explanation is that women hold a higher proportion of the lower paying jobs. within those roles they are paid precisely the same as the men.

THere are two solutions- either pay women more than men for doing the same job or stop employing women in the lower paid jobs. I wonder which way we will go