Article misleading about gender wage gap

Your article on the gender wage gap (Saturday, March 1) quotes unadjusted figures, without identifying them as such, which is misleading.

The Eurostat website on which the article appears to be based uses the word ‘unadjusted’ 17 times to inform readers that the figures don’t tell the whole truth, but your article didn’t use the word once. When the figures are adjusted to include (for example) the fact that men work longer hours than women, a different picture emerges.

But the article is doubly misleading, because it does not consider the difference between the highest and lowest paid people of the same sex, nor make the charge of “slave labour” about, for example, lower paid women in relation to higher paid women.

With this article coming so soon after the salary of the Rehab boss was finally revealed, the irony appears to be lost on you.

William Mongey

Ard Haven

Waterford