Report shows gender pay gaps largest in Ireland's legal, aviation, and insurance sectors

Overall national gender pay gap drops to 11.2%

PwC said that more female representation at more senior levels is critical to eliminating or reducing the wage gap.

Ireland's legal profession saw a 6% deterioration in its gender pay gap, despite the overall economy seeing a 1.4% improvement last year.

New analysis by PwC of gender pay gap reports from more than 550 Irish firms found the mean hourly gender pay gap across all companies is 11.2%, down from 12.6% last year.