There is no gender pay gap. It’s against the law. There’s a gap in the amount time men and women spend at work (men have the luxury of working harder and dying earlier) that would obviously correlate with total earnings (more work = more pay), but that’s about it. The BBC, of course, would have you believe otherwise.
There are a million articles debunking the gender pay gap, so here’s just one of them:
Turn Off The BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39502872