Roehampton women graduates earn £2k more than men
Despite the national graduate gender pay gap in favour of men, Roehampton bucks the trend.
Women who graduate from the University of Roehampton tend to have higher salaries than their colleagues who studied same subjects and finished university in the same year, a new government report has revealed. Their median average annual incomes surpass that of their male colleagues by £2056 within the first year from graduation.
“Roehampton is and historically has been a very female dominated university. The headline figures show that female graduates from Roehampton perform better than males, this bucks the sector trend in most subject areas” said Emily Lodge, Head of Planning at the University of Roehampton.
“This is something we should be proud of and it shows that we produce highly skilled and highly competent graduates who, regardless of their characteristics, are able to exceed and excel in a competitive labour market.”
The figures come from a government report which examined graduate’s incomes within the first, third and fifth year since leaving university. It follows an earlier release from December last year which collated graduates earnings by the subject they studied, and it has been updated with breakdown figures for particular universities and genders.
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Although the data for all the subjects is not available, it clearly shows that median annual salary of our female graduates exceeds the incomes of males by 13 per-cent on average.
The biggest discrepancy between median salaries of females and males is for the alumni of social science subjects, amounting to £5200 within the first year from graduation. The only area where male graduates make more than their female counterparts is psychology, where the annualised difference between the median earnings of both genders in the first year from graduation is £2300, in favour of men.
The government longitudinal educational outcome (LEO) report combined their tax and benefits databases with records obtained from British universities.
LEO shows that in the UK as a whole, male students outdo their female colleagues who studied same subjects at same universities and the pay gap between them widens with time. The report shows that women who graduate in veterinary science experience the widest gap. Even in nursing, the area which is believed to be dominated by women, male nurses still earn more than their female colleagues.
The only area where women outdo men, as far as median salary is concerned, is English, where their income surpasses that of men, on average, by £400 annually.
The report does not take into account if graduates completed a full time or a part time degree, neither does it contain figures for the self-employed.
“Since graduates from the creative arts are, anecdotally, more likely to undertake freelance work on leaving university, the lack of self-employment data used in the LEO may mean that the salaries reported for these students is lower than is actually the case”, Lodge explained.
